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title: What did Miss Sally stare at while the soldiers talked? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Miss Sally stare at while the soldiers talked? Test 12 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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What did Miss Sally stare at while the soldiers talked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Miss, soldiers · **What happens:** do, stare, talk

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t12:1
# text = What did Miss Sally stare at while the soldiers talked?
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	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	stare	stare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | present | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | participle | the soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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the silver on the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t12:o1:1
# text = the silver on the table
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t12:o2:1
# text = the wall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wall	wall	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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the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t12:o3:1
# text = the fire
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the Yankee officers' bright swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t12:o4:1
# text = the Yankee officers' bright swords
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Yankee	yankee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swords	sword	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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