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title: Bet, what did the slick dude wear? — Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, what did the slick dude wear? Test 8 · ★ 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 pr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fourth of July, part 35: Uncle Remus show…

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Bet, what did the slick dude wear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** slick dude wear

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t8:1
# text = Bet, what did the slick dude wear?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	slick	slick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bet | the slick dude wear |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality |

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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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A tall shiny silk top hat with feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t8:o1:1
# text = A tall shiny silk top hat with feathers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fancy gray vest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t8:o2:1
# text = A fancy gray vest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	vest	vest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A bee-gum hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t8:o3:1
# text = A bee-gum hat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hat	hat	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 straw boater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:599-pg2306-part35:t8:o4:1
# text = A straw boater
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boater	boater	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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