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description: What does the commencement orator regard as the cause of the day's disturbances? Exam question 4 of lesson 599 «Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus shows up bandaged on the Fourth of July, and the newspaper men question him about a fight with a slick man» of the books course of Mov
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

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What does the commencement orator regard as the cause of the day's disturbances?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** day · **What happens:** do, cause, disturb · **To what, where:** commencement orator regard, disturbances

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 599 «Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus shows up bandaged on the Fourth of July, and the newspaper men question him about a fight with a slick man» 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/599-pg2306-part35/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:e4:1
# text = What does the commencement orator regard as the cause of the day's disturbances?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	orator	orator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	disturbances	disturbance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the commencement orator regard |  |  |  | as the cause of the day's disturbances | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | the day's disturbances |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **disturb** |  | the day |  |  |  |  |  | nom disturbance «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Drunk men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:e4:o1:1
# text = Drunk men
1	Drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Careless talk by young people at picnics

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:e4:o2:1
# text = Careless talk by young people at picnics
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** |  | young people at picnics |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: by=agent |

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

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Disputes among citizens on holidays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:e4:o3:1
# text = Disputes among citizens on holidays
1	Disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Holidays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:e4:o4:1
# text = Holidays
1	Holidays	holiday	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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