--- title: Gee, what's the rabbit doing with the newspaper? — Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wol… · tree and pragmatics description: Gee, what's the rabbit doing with the newspaper? Test 9 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/574-pg2306-part10/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab… Gee, what's the rabbit doing with the newspaper? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gee, rabbit · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** rabbit This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t9:1 # text = Gee, what's the rabbit doing with the newspaper? 1 Gee gee NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Gee and the rabbit | the rabbit | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the rabbit *not said here* | | | | | with the newspaper | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Burning it up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t9:o1:1 # text = Burning it up 1 Burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn up** | gerund | | it | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t9:o2:1 # text = Sleeping 1 Sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Reading it by the fire ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t9:o3:1 # text = Reading it by the fire 1 Reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | | it | | | | by the fire | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ### Option 4 {#o4} Wrapping the fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:574-pg2306-part10:t9:o4:1 # text = Wrapping the fish 1 Wrapping wrap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | gerund | | | the fish | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Destination | **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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