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title: Lowkey, who was the old man chatting with? — Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, who was the old man chatting with? Test 2 · ★ 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 tre
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# Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

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Lowkey, who was the old man chatting with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey, old man · **What happens:** be, chat · **To what, where:** old man

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t2:1
# text = Lowkey, who was the old man chatting with?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lowkey | the old man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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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Tempy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = Tempy
1	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	NNP	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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Sis Tempy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = Sis Tempy
1	Sis	Sis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brother Jim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = Brother Jim
1	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Jim	Jim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = Her son
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	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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