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title: no cap that hunting bit was so petty, Rabbit made Fox look dumb — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap that hunting bit was so petty, Rabbit made Fox look dumb Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 11: Rabbit sc…

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no cap that hunting bit was so petty, Rabbit made Fox look dumb

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hunting bit, Rabbit, cap · **What happens:** be, make, look · **To what, where:** petty, Fox

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t8:1
# text = no cap that hunting bit was so petty, Rabbit made Fox look dumb
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	petty	petty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | hunting bit | petty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle | Rabbit *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fox=Product |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | no cap |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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yeah he played him proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t8:o1:1
# text = yeah he played him proper
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	played	play	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	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah he fooled him good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t8:o2:1
# text = yeah he fooled him good
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	fooled	fool	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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fool** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  |  | good *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yeah for real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t8:o3:1
# text = yeah for real
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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yeah he tricked him big time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:575-pg2306-part11:t8:o4:1
# text = yeah he tricked him big time
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	tricked	trick	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	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	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 | **trick** | past | he | him *= he* |  |  | time |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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