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title: What was all that silver stuff in the sitting-room, fam? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was all that silver stuff in the sitting-room, fam? Test 10 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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What was all that silver stuff in the sitting-room, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** silver stuff, sitting room

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t10:1
# text = What was all that silver stuff in the sitting-room, fam?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all silver stuff |  | the sitting room and fam |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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the silver candlesticks and dishes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t10:o1:1
# text = the silver candlesticks and dishes
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the big silver tea service set

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t10:o2:1
# text = the big silver tea service set
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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cups and saucers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t10:o3:1
# text = cups and saucers
1	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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silver spoons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t10:o4:1
# text = silver spoons
1	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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