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title: wait, who did Rabbit bet against? — Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who did Rabbit bet against? Test 11 · ★ 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; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Rabbit Finds His Match at Last, part 13: Poss…

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wait, who did Rabbit bet against?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, bet

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t11:1
# text = wait, who did Rabbit bet against?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bet** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Brer Tarrypin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = Brer Tarrypin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Tarrypin's cousin, Brer Turtle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = Brer Tarrypin's cousin, Brer Turtle
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brer Buzzard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = Brer Buzzard
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	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 Buzzard the wise old judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:577-pg2306-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = Brer Tukkey Buzzard the wise old judge
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	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	judge	judge	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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