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title: What course of action did the narrator recommend to the travelling f… — Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: What course of action did the narrator recommend to the travelling family in preference to rail transport? Exam question 3 of lesson 596 «Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets sick, warns a poor family, and confesses to a murder that may not have happened» of the books course of
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# Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

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What course of action did the narrator recommend to the travelling family in preference to rail transport?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** course · **What happens:** recommend · **To what, where:** travelling family, preference

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 596 «Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets sick, warns a poor family, and confesses to a murder that may not have happened» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/596-pg2306-part32/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:e3:1
# text = What course of action did the narrator recommend to the travelling family in preference to rail transport?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	recommend	recommend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | past · do-support | what course of action |  | the travelling family | preference to rail transport |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient |

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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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take the train

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:e3:o1:1
# text = take the train
1	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the train |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a return journey on foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:e3:o2:1
# text = a return journey on foot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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walk home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:e3:o3:1
# text = walk home
1	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a long trip by horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:e3:o4:1
# text = a long trip by horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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