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title: Which character concealed himself beneath the bed when the disturban… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimn… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character concealed himself beneath the bed when the disturbance commenced? Exam question 3 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 depend
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# Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

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Which character concealed himself beneath the bed when the disturbance commenced?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character, disturbance · **What happens:** conceal, commence · **To what, where:** character, bed

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e3:1
# text = Which character concealed himself beneath the bed when the disturbance commenced?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past | which character | character |  | the bed |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient beneath bed=Location |
| 2 | **commence** | participle | the disturbance |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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Brer Rabbit's little cousin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e3:o1:1
# text = Brer Rabbit's little cousin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cousin	cousin	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 Possum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e3:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brer Tukkey Buzzard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e3:o3:1
# text = Brer Tukkey Buzzard
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Brer Tarrypin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:e3:o4:1
# text = Brer Tarrypin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	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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