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title: what woke him up, like a dog? — Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: what woke him up, like a dog? Test 8 · ★ 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 the question an
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

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what woke him up, like a dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** wake up · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t8:1
# text = what woke him up, like a dog?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | like a dog | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the chickens squallin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t8:o1:1
# text = the chickens squallin'
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	squallin	squallin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the chickens squallin' out back, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t8:o2:1
# text = the chickens squallin' out back, lol
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	squallin	squallin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a loud car horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t8:o3:1
# text = a loud car horn
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the goats bleatin' outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:596-pg2306-part32:t8:o4:1
# text = the goats bleatin' outside
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	bleatin	bleatin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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