--- title: bruh, the tar baby, was she even talkin' back? — Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St… · tree and pragmatics description: bruh, the tar baby, was she even talkin' back? Test 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/568-pg2306-part4/t1/) [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/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get… bruh, the tar baby, was she even talkin' back? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tar baby · **What happens:** talkin back This is test 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. 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/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t1:1 # text = bruh, the tar baby, was she even talkin' back? 1 bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 talkin talkin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talkin back** | past · progressive | the tar baby | | | | | | tree rules | 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} nah, she quiet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t1:o1:1 # text = nah, she quiet 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} nope ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t1:o2:1 # text = nope 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} yep, she talked back a lot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t1:o3:1 # text = yep, she talked back a lot 1 yep yep INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk back** | past | she | a lot | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} nope, she ain't sayin' nuthin' ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t1:o4:1 # text = nope, she ain't sayin' nuthin' 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ai be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 sayin sayin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nuthin nuthin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` 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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