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title: Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 594 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dang · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dude braggin

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 594 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office» 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/594-pg2306-part30/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t2:1
# text = Dang, what's the Savannah dude always braggin' about?
1	Dang	Dang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	braggin	braggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dang | the dude braggin |  |  |  | always *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rice-birds and some old oysters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t2:o1:1
# text = Rice-birds and some old oysters
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oysters	oyster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rice-birds and shrimp back home, plus his big brass chain and fine coat

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t2:o2:1
# text = Rice-birds and shrimp back home, plus his big brass chain and fine coat
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rice-birds and shrimp back home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t2:o3:1
# text = Rice-birds and shrimp back home
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rice-birds, shrimp, and how the whole coast beats the rest of Georgia by a mile

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t2:o4:1
# text = Rice-birds, shrimp, and how the whole coast beats the rest of Georgia by a mile
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the whole coast | the rest of Georgia |  |  |  | by a mile | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rest=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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