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title: Yo, what did the rabbit slap on the badger's back to make him scream? — Myths and Legends of China, The Shinan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the rabbit slap on the badger's back to make him scream? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» of the books course of Mova's primary sch
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# Test 1 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

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Yo, what did the rabbit slap on the badger's back to make him scream?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** badger · **What happens:** do, make, scream · **To what, where:** rabbit slap, back, badger

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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/1349-pg4018-part9/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t1:1
# text = Yo, what did the rabbit slap on the badger's back to make him scream?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	7	det	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	scream	scream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the rabbit slap |  | the badger's back |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | badger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 {#o1}

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salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t1:o1:1
# text = salt
1	salt	salt	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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chili oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t1:o2:1
# text = chili oil
1	chili	chili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	oil	oil	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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red pepper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t1:o3:1
# text = red pepper
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pepper	pepper	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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hot mustard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t1:o4:1
# text = hot mustard
1	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mustard	mustard	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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