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title: Lol, what did the editor call him? — Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the editor call him? Test 10 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and p
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

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Lol, what did the editor call him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** editor · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t10:1
# text = Lol, what did the editor call him?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the editor | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result |

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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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A crook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t10:o1:1
# text = A crook
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crook	crook	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 dirty thief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t10:o2:1
# text = A dirty thief
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A villain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t10:o3:1
# text = A villain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	villain	villain	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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A liar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t10:o4:1
# text = A liar
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liar	liar	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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