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title: Ngl, what did Remus say a bar'l stave could fling into a boy? — Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did Remus say a bar'l stave could fling into a boy? Test 11 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

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Ngl, what did Remus say a bar'l stave could fling into a boy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Remus, bar'l stave · **What happens:** say, fling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t11:1
# text = Ngl, what did Remus say a bar'l stave could fling into a boy?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stave	stave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Remus |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fling** | could | a bar'l stave |  |  |  |  | into a boy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into boy=Destination |

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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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Bump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t11:o1:1
# text = Bump
1	Bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Sense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t11:o2:1
# text = Sense
1	Sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t11:o3:1
# text = Pain
1	Pain	pain	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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Scars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t11:o4:1
# text = Scars
1	Scars	scar	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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