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title: y'all, how many days was he stuck in bed, for real? — Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: y'all, how many days was he stuck in bed, for real? Test 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, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

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y'all, how many days was he stuck in bed, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** y'all · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bed

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This is test 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t3:1
# text = y'all, how many days was he stuck in bed, for real?
1	y'all	y'all	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | y'all |  |  | bed |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | y'all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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}

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like 3 weeks I guess lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t3:o1:1
# text = like 3 weeks I guess lol
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | present | I |  |  |  | week |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
just a couple days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t3:o2:1
# text = just a couple days
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like a week, prob

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t3:o3:1
# text = like a week, prob
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	prob	prob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
close to a whole month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t3:o4:1
# text = close to a whole month
1	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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