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title: lowkey, how'd brer fox act when he came out? — Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey, how'd brer fox act when he came out? Test 6 · ★ 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 r
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# Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lowkey, how'd brer fox act when he came out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** come out

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t6:1
# text = lowkey, how'd brer fox act when he came out?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	brer	br	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | lowkey |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all innocent, like a mockingbird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t6:o1:1
# text = all innocent, like a mockingbird
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mockingbird	mockingbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all sly and grinning, like a fox that just ate a hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t6:o2:1
# text = all sly and grinning, like a fox that just ate a hen
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | sly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | past | a fox | a hen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all grinning, like a red fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t6:o3:1
# text = all grinning, like a red fox
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grin** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | like a red fox | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all innocent, like a mockingbird singing in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t6:o4:1
# text = all innocent, like a mockingbird singing in the sun
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
2	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mockingbird	mockingbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | all innocent mockingbird *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |

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