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title: what's the deal with hard sense, is that like a real joke? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the deal with hard sense, is that like a real joke? Test 10 · ★ 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; Mov
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

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what's the deal with hard sense, is that like a real joke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real joke, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t10:1
# text = what's the deal with hard sense, is that like a real joke?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a real joke | the deal |  |  |  | with hard sense | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | like a real joke | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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yeah it's a joke about a hard cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = yeah it's a joke about a hard cheese
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a joke |  |  |  | about a hard cheese | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson the tough way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson the tough way
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | a joke *not said here* | a hard lesson |  |  |  | the tough way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = yeah it's a joke about getting a hard lesson
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | a joke *not said here* | a hard lesson |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah it's a kind of hard candy that Brer Rabbit eats all the time in the woods

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = nah it's a kind of hard candy that Brer Rabbit eats all the time in the woods
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	candy	candy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a kind |  |  |  | of hard candy | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | Brer Rabbit | a kind |  | the woods | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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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