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title: What was the nature of the object which Brer Rabbit asserted lay wit… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimn… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the object which Brer Rabbit asserted lay within the chimney? Exam question 2 of lesson 573 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of the chimney, and Brer Wolf makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

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What was the nature of the object which Brer Rabbit asserted lay within the chimney?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nature, Brer · **What happens:** be, assert · **To what, where:** object

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 573 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of the chimney, and Brer Wolf makes a plan» 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/573-pg2306-part9/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e2:1
# text = What was the nature of the object which Brer Rabbit asserted lay within the chimney?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	asserted	assert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	lay	lay	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nature of the object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **assert** | past | Brer | the object |  |  |  | within the chimney; lay *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e2:o1:1
# text = gold coins
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a box of money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e2:o2:1
# text = a box of money
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a purse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e2:o3:1
# text = a purse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purse	purse	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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a sack of silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e2:o4:1
# text = a sack of silver
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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