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title: Who was appointed to adjudicate the contest and hold the wager? — Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was appointed to adjudicate the contest and hold the wager? Exam question 3 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

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Who was appointed to adjudicate the contest and hold the wager?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** appoint, adjudicate, hold · **To what, where:** contest, wager

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e3:1
# text = Who was appointed to adjudicate the contest and hold the wager?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	adjudicate	adjudicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **adjudicate** | to-infinitive |  | the contest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive |  | the wager |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=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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Brer Tarrypin, the swamp's oldest judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e3:o1:1
# text = Brer Tarrypin, the swamp's oldest judge
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e3:o2:1
# text = Brer Owl
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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Brer Tukkey Buzzard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e3:o3:1
# text = Brer Tukkey Buzzard
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brer Tukkey Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:e3:o4:1
# text = Brer Tukkey Crow
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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