--- title: Which utensil does Brer Rabbit fill with water and place upon the fi… — Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wol… · tree and pragmatics description: Which utensil does Brer Rabbit fill with water and place upon the fire? Exam question 3 of lesson 574 «Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rabbit traps Brer Wolf in a chest and then sets a kettle on the fire» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/574-pg2306-part10/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wol…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/574-pg2306-part10/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab… Which utensil does Brer Rabbit fill with water and place upon the fire? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** utensil, Brer · **What happens:** do, fill This is exam question 3 of lesson 574 «Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rabbit traps Brer Wolf in a chest and then sets a kettle on the fire» 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/574-pg2306-part10/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:e3:1 # text = Which utensil does Brer Rabbit fill with water and place upon the fire? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 utensil utensil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | which utensil | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fill** | present | Brer | | | | | with water and place; upon the fire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | 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} A kettle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:e3:o1:1 # text = A kettle 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A big iron kettle hung over the fire ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:e3:o2:1 # text = A big iron kettle hung over the fire 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | participle | | a big iron kettle *not said here* | | the fire | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} A kittle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:e3:o3:1 # text = A kittle 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kittle kittle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A teakettle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:e3:o4:1 # text = A teakettle 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teakettle teakettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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