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title: Deadass, what did Rabbit lick clean? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deadass, what did Rabbit lick clean? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 576 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down the well, and the butter goes missing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down…

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Deadass, what did Rabbit lick clean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** lick

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 576 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down the well, and the butter goes missing» 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/576-pg2306-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t12:1
# text = Deadass, what did Rabbit lick clean?
1	Deadass	Deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | past · do-support | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | Deadass *vocative*; clean *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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 {#o1}

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The wooden churn lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = The wooden churn lid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bucket of butter and the dish from the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = The bucket of butter and the dish from the table
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The butter bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = The butter bucket
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The butter bucket and the spring-house lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = The butter bucket and the spring-house lid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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