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title: no cap, which town's the fam tryna get to? — Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, which town's the fam tryna get to? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

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no cap, which town's the fam tryna get to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** town, cap · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** fam

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t4:1
# text = no cap, which town's the fam tryna get to?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	tryna	tryna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which town | the fam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | no cap and the fam |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 -->
Jonesboro, down in Georgia, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t4:o1:1
# text = Jonesboro, down in Georgia, I think
1	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | Jonesboro *vocative* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Savannah, out in Georgia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t4:o2:1
# text = Savannah, out in Georgia
1	Savannah	Savannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	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 -->
Tallapoosy, down in Alabam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t4:o3:1
# text = Tallapoosy, down in Alabam
1	Tallapoosy	Tallapoosy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Alabam	Alabam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Charleston, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t4:o4:1
# text = Charleston, lol
1	Charleston	Charleston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

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