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title: Dang, why'd Remus grab Mars Jeems's rifle? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dang, why'd Remus grab Mars Jeems's rifle? Test 13 · ★ 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 question and of e
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# Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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Dang, why'd Remus grab Mars Jeems's rifle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Remus · **What happens:** grab · **To what, where:** rifle

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t13:1
# text = Dang, why'd Remus grab Mars Jeems's rifle?
1	Dang	dang	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
7	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
10	rifle	rifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | infinitive | Remus | Mars's rifle |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rifle=Theme |

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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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to shoot any soldiers near the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t13:o1:1
# text = to shoot any soldiers near the gate
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | to-infinitive |  | any soldiers |  | the gate |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme near gate=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to look after his stock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t13:o2:1
# text = to look after his stock
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stock	stock	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** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after his stock |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stock** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to guard the mule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t13:o3:1
# text = to guard the mule
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	guard	guard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | to-infinitive |  |  | the mule |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to kill a snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:t13:o4:1
# text = to kill a snake
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | a snake |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |

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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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