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title: What was the designated length of the course in the race between Bre… — Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the designated length of the course in the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin? Exam question 2 of lesson 577 «Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Possum burned for butter, Rabbit bets Tarrypin a race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependenc
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# Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

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What was the designated length of the course in the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** designate, be · **To what, where:** designated length, race

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 577 «Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Possum burned for butter, Rabbit bets Tarrypin a race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/577-pg2306-part13/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e2:1
# text = What was the designated length of the course in the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer Tarrypin?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the designated length |  | the race between Brer Rabbit and Brer |  | of the course | 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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three miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = three miles
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = two miles
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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five miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = five miles
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a mile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = a mile
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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