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description: Which sum did Pegleg Charley request from Uncle Remus for the purchase of a pie? Exam question 4 of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

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Which sum did Pegleg Charley request from Uncle Remus for the purchase of a pie?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** do, purchase · **To what, where:** Pegleg request, Uncle Remus, pie

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 598 «Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns a boy, tells of a stomach ache, and grumbles about schooling» 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/598-pg2306-part34/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:e4:1
# text = Which sum did Pegleg Charley request from Uncle Remus for the purchase of a pie?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Pegleg	Pegleg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Charley	Charley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which sum | Pegleg request |  | Uncle Remus |  | for the purchase of a pie | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 2 | **purchase** |  |  | a pie |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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A nickel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:e4:o1:1
# text = A nickel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A dollar and a half for the pie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:e4:o2:1
# text = A dollar and a half for the pie
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A dime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:e4:o3:1
# text = A dime
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dime	dime	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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Two bits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:e4:o4:1
# text = Two bits
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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