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title: yo did Brer Rabbit like actually cook Brer Wolf or nah? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo did Brer Rabbit like actually cook Brer Wolf or nah? Test 1 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

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yo did Brer Rabbit like actually cook Brer Wolf or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, cook · **To what, where:** Brer Rabbit, Brer

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t1:1
# text = yo did Brer Rabbit like actually cook Brer Wolf or nah?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Brer Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cook** | infinitive |  | Brer |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brer=Patient |

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

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yeah he totally scalded him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = yeah he totally scalded him
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scalded	scald	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scald** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah he scorched him a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = yeah he scorched him a bit
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scorch** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nah he didn't cook him, he just tricked him into the chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = nah he didn't cook him, he just tricked him into the chest
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cook** | past · do-support | he | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **trick** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | into the chest *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into chest=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah he totally scalded him with a kettle of hot water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = yeah he totally scalded him with a kettle of hot water
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scalded	scald	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scald** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | with a kettle of hot water; totally *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with kettle=Instrument |

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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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