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title: ngl bro, what'd brer fox invite him to? — Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby St… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl bro, what'd brer fox invite him to? Test 7 · ★ 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.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer Rabbit get…

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ngl bro, what'd brer fox invite him to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl bro · **What happens:** invite · **To what, where:** fox

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t7:1
# text = ngl bro, what'd brer fox invite him to?
1	ngl	ngl	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	brer	br	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | ngl bro |  | fox |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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lunch with corn and beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = lunch with corn and beans
1	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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supper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = supper
1	supper	supper	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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supper with sweet potatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = supper with sweet potatoes
1	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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dinner with calamus root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:568-pg2306-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = dinner with calamus root
1	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	calamus	calamus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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