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title: Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish? — Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Bre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 569 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox into the brier-patch» 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 ri
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

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Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Elephant · **What happens:** do

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 569 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox into the brier-patch» 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/569-pg2306-part5/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t10:1
# text = Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Crawfish	crawfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | the Elephant |  |  |  |  | to the Crawfish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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}

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Squished him flat with his foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t10:o1:1
# text = Squished him flat with his foot
1	Squished	squish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squish** | participle |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | with his foot; flat *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with foot=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kicked him into the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t10:o2:1
# text = Kicked him into the river
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into river=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sat on him real hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t10:o3:1
# text = Sat on him real hard
1	Sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on him *= he*; real *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stepped on him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t10:o4:1
# text = Stepped on him
1	Stepped	step	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on him *= he* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory |

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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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