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title: lol so Rabbit played dead and the Fox just gave him his stuff? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol so Rabbit played dead and the Fox just gave him his stuff? Test 6 · ★ 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; 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

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lol so Rabbit played dead and the Fox just gave him his stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Rabbit, Fox · **What happens:** play, give · **To what, where:** dead, stuff, Rabbit

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t6:1
# text = lol so Rabbit played dead and the Fox just gave him his stuff?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Rabbit | dead |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Fox | Rabbit's stuff | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stuff=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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yeah he left his game in the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah he left his game in the road
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	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | he | his game |  | the road |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent game=Theme in road=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah he dropped his hat there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t6:o2:1
# text = yeah he dropped his hat there
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	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | he | his hat |  | there |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yeah he left his game in the road and walked off home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t6:o3:1
# text = yeah he left his game in the road and walked off home
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	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | he | his game |  | the road |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent game=Theme in road=Location |
| 2 | **walk off** | past | he *not said here* | home |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yeah he gave him the rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t6:o4:1
# text = yeah he gave him the rabbit
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	gave	give	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	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | he | the rabbit | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rabbit=Theme |

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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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