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title: Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor? — Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** guy

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» 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/595-pg2306-part31/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:595-pg2306-part31:t8:1
# text = Who was the guy with the lavender gloves, the society editor?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lavender	lavender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the guy and the society editor |  |  |  | with the lavender gloves | 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 -->
Yeah, the dude who fixed his cuffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:595-pg2306-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the dude who fixed his cuffs
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cuffs	cuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | the dude | his cuffs |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cuff=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids and waved his hat at the crowd

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:595-pg2306-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids and waved his hat at the crowd
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smooth** | past |  | the dude |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |
| 2 | **wave** | past |  | his hat |  | the crowd |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:595-pg2306-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the dude who smoothed his kids
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smooth** | past |  | the dude |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the dude who smoothed his lavender gloves on the porch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:595-pg2306-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, the dude who smoothed his lavender gloves on the porch
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lavender	lavender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smooth** | past |  | the dude |  | the porch |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glove=Patient |

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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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