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title: when Rabbit asked "who dar," what did Wolf say? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimn… · tree and pragmatics
description: when Rabbit asked "who dar," what did Wolf say? Test 11 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

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when Rabbit asked "who dar," what did Wolf say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rabbit, Wolf · **What happens:** ask, dar, say · **To what, where:** dar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t11:1
# text = when Rabbit asked "who dar," what did Wolf say?
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dar	dar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dar** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Wolf | dar |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t11:o1:1
# text = Brother
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Fr'en'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t11:o2:1
# text = Fr'en'
1	Fr'en	Fr'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's yo' frien' Brer Wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t11:o3:1
# text = It's yo' frien' Brer Wolf
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	yo	you	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
5	frien	frien	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | yo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t11:o4:1
# text = Fox
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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