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title: To whom did Mars Jeems entrust the protection of his mother and sist… — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did Mars Jeems entrust the protection of his mother and sister upon his departure? Exam question 2 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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To whom did Mars Jeems entrust the protection of his mother and sister upon his departure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mars · **What happens:** entrust, protect, depart · **To what, where:** protection, mother

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/592-pg2306-part28/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e2:1
# text = To whom did Mars Jeems entrust the protection of his mother and sister upon his departure?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	entrust	entrust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrust** | present | Mars | the protection of Mars's mother and sister |  |  |  | upon Mars's departure | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Recipient |
| 2 | **protect** |  |  | Mars's mother and sister |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **depart** |  | Mars |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Uncle Remus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e2:o1:1
# text = Uncle Remus
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mars Jeems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e2:o2:1
# text = Mars Jeems
1	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the overseer who stayed behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e2:o3:1
# text = the overseer who stayed behind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	overseer	overseer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | the overseer |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the faithful old servant named Remus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e2:o4:1
# text = the faithful old servant named Remus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | the faithful old servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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