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title: What identity did Brer Fox declare he would assume upon returning ho… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: What identity did Brer Fox declare he would assume upon returning home? Exam question 3 of lesson 575 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit scalds Brer Wolf with hot water» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

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What identity did Brer Fox declare he would assume upon returning home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** identity, Brer Fox, Fox · **What happens:** do, declare, assume, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 575 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit scalds Brer Wolf with hot water» 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/575-pg2306-part11/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:e3:1
# text = What identity did Brer Fox declare he would assume upon returning home?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what identity |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **assume** | would | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | gerund | Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That of old man Hunter from Huntsville

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:e3:o1:1
# text = That of old man Hunter from Huntsville
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That of a travelling preacher named old man Hunter from Huntsville

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:e3:o2:1
# text = That of a travelling preacher named old man Hunter from Huntsville
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	preacher	preacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That of young man Hunter from Tennessee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:e3:o3:1
# text = That of young man Hunter from Tennessee
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tennessee	Tennessee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That of old man Hunter from Huntsville, a stranger passing through town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:e3:o4:1
# text = That of old man Hunter from Huntsville, a stranger passing through town
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Huntsville	Huntsville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* |  |  | town |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=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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