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title: Dude, what's a blind bridle even? — Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Bre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what's a blind bridle even? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 570 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer Fox to Miss Meadows's and hitches him to the rack» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer…

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Dude, what's a blind bridle even?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** blind bridle

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 570 «Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer Fox to Miss Meadows's and hitches him to the rack» 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/570-pg2306-part6/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t3:1
# text = Dude, what's a blind bridle even?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	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	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dude | a blind bridle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A special bridle with leather blinders covering both eyes of the horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = A special bridle with leather blinders covering both eyes of the horse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	blinders	blinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | leather blinders *not said here* | both eyes of the horse |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A bridle with no eyes holes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = A bridle with no eyes holes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bridle with blinders on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = A bridle with blinders on
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	blinders	blinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bridle that covers the horse's eyes completely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = A bridle that covers the horse's eyes completely
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | a bridle | the horse's eyes |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |

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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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