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title: so what did Tarrypin holler back to Rabbit? — Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did Tarrypin holler back to Rabbit? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

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so what did Tarrypin holler back to Rabbit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tarrypin · **What happens:** holler back, rabbit

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t10:1
# text = so what did Tarrypin holler back to Rabbit?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	holler	holler	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Rabbit	rabbit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **holler back** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Tarrypin |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **rabbit** | infinitive | Tarrypin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Yer I come a bilin' right up outa de mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t10:o1:1
# text = Yer I come a bilin' right up outa de mud
1	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bilin	bilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	outa	outa	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	amod	_	_
10	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat	_	_
11	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Yer | a bilin |  |  |  | outa mud *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bilin=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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I'm over here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t10:o2:1
# text = I'm over here
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | here, over *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yonder in de briar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t10:o3:1
# text = Yonder in de briar
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	briar	briar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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"Yer I come a bilin'"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t10:o4:1
# text = "Yer I come a bilin'"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bilin	bilin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Yer | a bilin |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bilin=Theme |

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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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