--- title: Why's the fox all salty about the party? — Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Bre… · tree and pragmatics description: Why's the fox all salty about the party? Test 7 · ★ 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; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/570-pg2306-part6/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Bre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/570-pg2306-part6/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit rides Brer… Why's the fox all salty about the party? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fox This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t7:1 # text = Why's the fox all salty about the party? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the fox | | | | | tree rules | 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 {#o1} The girls laughed at him and said there would be no party without him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t7:o1:1 # text = The girls laughed at him and said there would be no party without him 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 13 without without ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the girls | | | | | at him *= he*; without him *= he* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | infinitive | the girls *not said here* | no party | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Girls said no party without him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t7:o2:1 # text = Girls said no party without him 1 Girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 without without ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Girls | no party | | | | without him *= he* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent party=Topic | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} The rabbit made him look silly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t7:o3:1 # text = The rabbit made him look silly 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the rabbit | him *= he* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | | | | | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} The girls said there'd be no party without him there ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:570-pg2306-part6:t7:o4:1 # text = The girls said there'd be no party without him there 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girls | | | there | | without party | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | would | no party | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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