---
title: Did the young man try to corner Remus on the pie thing? — Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the young man try to corner Remus on the pie thing? Test 7 · ★ 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 depe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/594-pg2306-part30/t7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savan…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/594-pg2306-part30/) / t7

# Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the young man try to corner Remus on the pie thing?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** corner, pie thing

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t7:1
# text = Did the young man try to corner Remus on the pie thing?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · do-support | the young man | corner |  | the pie thing |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he got him real good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he got him real good
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he just walked away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t7:o2:1
# text = Nah, he just walked away
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk away** | past | he |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t7:o3:1
# text = Nah, not really
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he tried it once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:594-pg2306-part30:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he tried it once
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | he | it |  |  |  | once *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savan…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/594-pg2306-part30/t6/)
- next →: [Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savan…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/594-pg2306-part30/t8/)
- ↑ back to [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/594-pg2306-part30/)