--- title: Be so for real, what happened to the butter? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well:… · tree and pragmatics description: Be so for real, what happened to the butter? Test 13 · ★ 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 c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/576-pg2306-part12/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/576-pg2306-part12/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and the Well: Brer Fox falls down… Be so for real, what happened to the butter? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, happen This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t13:1 # text = Be so for real, what happened to the butter? 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 7 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | | | | | | to the butter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Stolen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t13:o1:1 # text = Stolen 1 Stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Melted ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t13:o2:1 # text = Melted 1 Melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} It was all gone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t13:o3:1 # text = It was all gone 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | It | | | | | all, gone *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} It went to Fox ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:576-pg2306-part12:t13:o4:1 # text = It went to Fox 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | It | | | | | to Fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fox=Initial\_Location | **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. 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