--- title: yo, what's a tar baby even made of? — Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St… · tree and pragmatics description: yo, what's a tar baby even made of? Test 2 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/568-pg2306-part4/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get… yo, what's a tar baby even made of? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** tar baby This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t2:1 # text = yo, what's a tar baby even made of? 1 yo yo INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a tar baby | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a tar baby *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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} tar, turkentime, and a little bit of molasses too ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t2:o1:1 # text = tar, turkentime, and a little bit of molasses too 1 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 turkentime turkentime NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 molasses molass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} tar and turkentime mixed up with some lard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t2:o2:1 # text = tar and turkentime mixed up with some lard 1 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 turkentime turkentime NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 lard lard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix up** | participle | | tar and turkentime *not said here* | | | | with some lard | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with lard=Co-Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} tar and cornmeal flour ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t2:o3:1 # text = tar and cornmeal flour 1 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 cornmeal cornmeal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} tar and turkentime ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t2:o4:1 # text = tar and turkentime 1 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 turkentime turkentime NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` 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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