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title: What did the visiting soldier remark regarding the object resting up… — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the visiting soldier remark regarding the object resting upon the narrator's implement? Exam question 3 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 t
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# Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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What did the visiting soldier remark regarding the object resting upon the narrator's implement?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, visit, regard, rest · **To what, where:** visiting soldier remark, implement

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e3:1
# text = What did the visiting soldier remark regarding the object resting upon the narrator's implement?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the visiting soldier remark |  |  |  | regard the object | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | gerund | the object *not said here* |  |  | the narrator's implement |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon implement=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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It resembled the blood of some animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e3:o1:1
# text = It resembled the blood of some animal
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | past | It | the blood of some animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It was red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e3:o2:1
# text = It was red
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It resembled blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e3:o3:1
# text = It resembled blood
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | past | It | blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It looked like rust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e3:o4:1
# text = It looked like rust
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | It |  |  |  |  | like rust | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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