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title: Which character was placed by Brer Rabbit upon a shelf adjacent to t… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character was placed by Brer Rabbit upon a shelf adjacent to the water-bucket? Exam question 4 of lesson 572 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit tricks Miss Cow into a tree, then Brer Terrapin goes calling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit…

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Which character was placed by Brer Rabbit upon a shelf adjacent to the water-bucket?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Brer Rabbit · **What happens:** place · **To what, where:** character, shelf

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 572 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Miss Cow, part 8: Brer Rabbit tricks Miss Cow into a tree, then Brer Terrapin goes calling» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/572-pg2306-part8/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:572-pg2306-part8:e4:1
# text = Which character was placed by Brer Rabbit upon a shelf adjacent to the water-bucket?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive | Brer Rabbit | which character |  | a shelf |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon shelf=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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the cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:572-pg2306-part8:e4:o1:1
# text = the cow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:572-pg2306-part8:e4:o2:1
# text = Brer Fox
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Brer Terrapin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:572-pg2306-part8:e4:o3:1
# text = Brer Terrapin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brer Possum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:572-pg2306-part8:e4:o4:1
# text = Brer Possum
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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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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