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title: Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch? — Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Bre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch? Test 3 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer…

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Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do, not chuck · **To what, where:** rabbit beg, patch

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t3:1
# text = Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the rabbit beg |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **chuck** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  | the patch |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: in patch=Destination |

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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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Cause it's scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t3:o1:1
# text = Cause it's scary
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cause it was too far off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t3:o2:1
# text = Cause it was too far off
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cause he was super hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t3:o3:1
# text = Cause he was super hungry
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | hungry, super *property* | tree rules |

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

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Cause he was lowkey scared of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:569-pg2306-part5:t3:o4:1
# text = Cause he was lowkey scared of it
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | of it; lowkey, scared *property* | tree rules |

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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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