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title: Ngl, how big was the slick guy's watch? — Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how big was the slick guy's watch? Test 11 · ★ 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 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

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Ngl, how big was the slick guy's watch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** watch

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t11:1
# text = Ngl, how big was the slick guy's watch?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slick	slick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | the slick guy's watch |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Like a plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t11:o1:1
# text = Like a plate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plate	plate	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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Big as a saucer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t11:o2:1
# text = Big as a saucer
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Big as a barrel head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t11:o3:1
# text = Big as a barrel head
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like a pie tin wide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t11:o4:1
# text = Like a pie tin wide
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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