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title: What item is requested by Brer Rabbit as a flavouring for the chicke… — Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle R… · tree and pragmatics
description: What item is requested by Brer Rabbit as a flavouring for the chicken dinner? Exam question 3 of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 3 · Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the L…

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What item is requested by Brer Rabbit as a flavouring for the chicken dinner?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** request · **To what, where:** item

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 567 «Legends of the Old Plantation, Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, part 3: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of a dinner» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/567-pg2306-part3/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e3:1
# text = What item is requested by Brer Rabbit as a flavouring for the chicken dinner?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flavouring	flavouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | present · passive | Brer Rabbit | item |  |  |  | as a flavouring for the chicken dinner | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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calamus root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e3:o1:1
# text = calamus root
1	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	root	root	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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salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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a little calamus root to season the chicken well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e3:o3:1
# text = a little calamus root to season the chicken well
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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wild ginger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:567-pg2306-part3:e3:o4:1
# text = wild ginger
1	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ginger	ginger	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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