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title: did Uncle Remus say folks are fixing up for Christmas? — Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: did Uncle Remus say folks are fixing up for Christmas? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

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did Uncle Remus say folks are fixing up for Christmas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Uncle Remus, folks · **What happens:** say, fix up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» 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/597-pg2306-part33/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:597-pg2306-part33:t8:1
# text = did Uncle Remus say folks are fixing up for Christmas?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Uncle Remus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix up** | present · progressive | folks |  |  |  |  | for Christmas | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for christmas=Beneficiary |

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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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Nah, not yet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:597-pg2306-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = Nah, not yet
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Yep, poor folks gotta get their rations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:597-pg2306-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = Yep, poor folks gotta get their rations
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	rations	ration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | infinitive | poor folks *not said here* | folks's rations |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ration=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nah, folks just wait on the spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:597-pg2306-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = Nah, folks just wait on the spring
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | folks |  |  |  | spring |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yep, they're cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:597-pg2306-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = Yep, they're cooking
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present · progressive | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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