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title: Which implement was not employed by Brer Wolf in his excavation? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which implement was not employed by Brer Wolf in his excavation? Exam question 4 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 dependency tree and
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi…

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Which implement was not employed by Brer Wolf in his excavation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** not employ, excavate · **To what, where:** implement, excavation

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e4:1
# text = Which implement was not employed by Brer Wolf in his excavation?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	excavation	excavation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **employ** | past · passive | Brer | which implement |  | Brer's excavation |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **excavate** |  | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | nom excavation «act intransitive»: poss=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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A hoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e4:o1:1
# text = A hoe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A hatchet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e4:o2:1
# text = A hatchet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A plough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e4:o3:1
# text = A plough
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:e4:o4:1
# text = A rake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rake	rake	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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