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title: Upon the return of Brer Wolf, which party was found to have removed… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the return of Brer Wolf, which party was found to have removed the fishes? Exam question 1 of lesson 579 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Wolf out of his best cow, and Brer Wolf digs for nothing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

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Upon the return of Brer Wolf, which party was found to have removed the fishes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** party, Brer Wolf · **What happens:** find, remove, return · **To what, where:** party, fishes

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 579 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Wolf out of his best cow, and Brer Wolf digs for nothing» 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/579-pg2306-part15/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e1:1
# text = Upon the return of Brer Wolf, which party was found to have removed the fishes?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | which party |  |  |  | upon the return of Brer Wolf | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | to-infinitive · perfect | which party *not said here* | the fishes |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **return** |  | Brer Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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Brer Rabbit, who had hidden them in the sugar barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e1:o1:1
# text = Brer Rabbit, who had hidden them in the sugar barrel
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive |  | Brer |  | the sugar barrel |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Rabbit, who sneaked them off to his smoke-house late at night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e1:o2:1
# text = Brer Rabbit, who sneaked them off to his smoke-house late at night
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sneaked	sneak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak off** | past | Brer | them *= they* |  | Brer's smoke house | night | late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Brer Rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e1:o3:1
# text = Brer Rabbit
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	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 Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e1:o4:1
# text = Brer Fox
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	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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