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title: wait, what made Rabbit sneeze, y'all? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimn… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what made Rabbit sneeze, y'all? Test 4 · ★ 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 question and of e
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# Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Chimney, part 9: Brer Rab…

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wait, what made Rabbit sneeze, y'all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Rabbit · **What happens:** wait, make, sneeze · **To what, where:** Rabbit, y'all

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t4:1
# text = wait, what made Rabbit sneeze, y'all?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	y'all	y'all	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sneeze** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | y'all |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the thick smoke and flying ashes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t4:o1:1
# text = the thick smoke and flying ashes
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the smoke from that pot of greens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t4:o2:1
# text = the smoke from that pot of greens
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
smoke and ashes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t4:o3:1
# text = smoke and ashes
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
burnt sage, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:573-pg2306-part9:t4:o4:1
# text = burnt sage, fr
1	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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