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title: Y'all, what did Charley wanna buy? — Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Y'all, what did Charley wanna buy? Test 5 · ★ 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 the question and of each optio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

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Y'all, what did Charley wanna buy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Y'all · **What happens:** buy

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t5:1
# text = Y'all, what did Charley wanna buy?
1	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	Charley	Charley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · do-support | Y'all |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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Cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t5:o1:1
# text = Cake
1	Cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A pie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t5:o2:1
# text = A pie
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pie	pie	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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Candy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t5:o3:1
# text = Candy
1	Candy	candy	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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Tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t5:o4:1
# text = Tea
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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