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title: ok so who's the real snitch in this story? — Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a ta… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so who's the real snitch in this story? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

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ok so who's the real snitch in this story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** real snitch, story

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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/578-pg2306-part14/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t2:1
# text = ok so who's the real snitch in this story?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	snitch	snitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the real snitch |  | this story |  |  | 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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Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird who ran to Brer Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t2:o1:1
# text = Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird who ran to Brer Fox
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tattling	tattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the little tattling bird |  |  |  |  | to Brer Fox *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fox=Result |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t2:o2:1
# text = Jack Sparrer, the little tattling bird
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Sparrer	Sparrer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tattling	tattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brer Fox, the sly old hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t2:o3:1
# text = Brer Fox, the sly old hunter
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brer Terrapin, the cheating one there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:578-pg2306-part14:t2:o4:1
# text = Brer Terrapin, the cheating one there
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | gerund | Brer *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Source |

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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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