--- title: Which substances did Brer Fox combine to fashion the figure known as… — Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St… · tree and pragmatics description: Which substances did Brer Fox combine to fashion the figure known as the Tar-Baby? Exam question 1 of lesson 568 «Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit gets stuck fast to the Tar-Baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/568-pg2306-part4/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/568-pg2306-part4/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get… Which substances did Brer Fox combine to fashion the figure known as the Tar-Baby? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substances · **What happens:** fox, fashion, know · **To what, where:** combine, figure This is exam question 1 of lesson 568 «Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit gets stuck fast to the Tar-Baby» 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/568-pg2306-part4/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:e1:1 # text = Which substances did Brer Fox combine to fashion the figure known as the Tar-Baby? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 substances substance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 Fox fox VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 combine combine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 fashion fashion VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 Tar Tar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fox** | past · do-support | which substances | combine | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus combine=Experiencer | | 2 | **fashion** | to-infinitive | which substances *not said here* | the figure | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product | | 3 | **know** | participle | | the figure *not said here* | | | | as the Tar Baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as baby=Attribute | 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} Lard and turpentine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:e1:o1:1 # text = Lard and turpentine 1 Lard lard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 turpentine turpentine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Tar and turpentine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:e1:o2:1 # text = Tar and turpentine 1 Tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 turpentine turpentine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Tar and molasses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:e1:o3:1 # text = Tar and molasses 1 Tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 molasses molass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:e1:o4:1 # text = Tar 1 Tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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