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title: Ain't the little dude in this story kinda nosy? — Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ain't the little dude in this story kinda nosy? Test 11 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…

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Ain't the little dude in this story kinda nosy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t11:1
# text = Ain't the little dude in this story kinda nosy?
1	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	nosy	nosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He asks lots of questions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t11:o1:1
# text = He asks lots of questions
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | He | lots of questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He chases the dogs away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t11:o2:1
# text = He chases the dogs away
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chases	chase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | present | He | the dogs |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He asks lots of questions about everything in the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t11:o3:1
# text = He asks lots of questions about everything in the house
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | He | lots of questions about everything |  | the house |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He hides in the hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t11:o4:1
# text = He hides in the hole
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | He |  |  | the hole |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hole=Location |

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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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