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title: Salty, what had the workers been eyeballing? — Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Salty, what had the workers been eyeballing? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Florida Watermelon, part 34: Remus warns…

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Salty, what had the workers been eyeballing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** workers · **What happens:** eyeball

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t8:1
# text = Salty, what had the workers been eyeballing?
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	eyeballing	eyeball	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eyeball** | past · perfect · progressive | the workers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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The gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t8:o1:1
# text = The gate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	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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The chicken-coop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t8:o2:1
# text = The chicken-coop
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	coop	coop	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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The corn crib

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t8:o3:1
# text = The corn crib
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crib	crib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The smokehouse door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:598-pg2306-part34:t8:o4:1
# text = The smokehouse door
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smokehouse	smokehouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	door	door	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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