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title: Fr fr, how did the Fox grab the Buzzard? — Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. R… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr fr, how did the Fox grab the Buzzard? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 571 «Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox and Brer Buzzard into the hollow tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit t…

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Fr fr, how did the Fox grab the Buzzard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fr fr, Fox · **What happens:** do, grab · **To what, where:** Buzzard

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 571 «Uncle Remus, Fox Is "Outdone" by Mr. Rabbit: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox and Brer Buzzard into the hollow tree» 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/571-pg2306-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t3:1
# text = Fr fr, how did the Fox grab the Buzzard?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fr fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grab** | present | the Fox | the Buzzard |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzzard=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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He grabbed him by his long bare tail feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = He grabbed him by his long bare tail feathers
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | He | him *= he* |  |  |  | by his long bare tail feathers | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By the tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = By the tail
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tail	tail	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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By the neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = By the neck
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fox caught him by the wings while he flapped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:571-pg2306-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = Fox caught him by the wings while he flapped
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Fox | him *= he* |  |  |  | by the wings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **flap** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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