--- title: Yo, who's the dude who came up short in the new tale? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, who's the dude who came up short in the new tale? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/579-pg2306-part15/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/579-pg2306-part15/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Wolf, part 2: Brer Rabbi… Yo, who's the dude who came up short in the new tale? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude · **What happens:** be, come up · **To what, where:** dude This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:t11:1 # text = Yo, who's the dude who came up short in the new tale? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the dude | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come up** | past | the dude | | | | | short *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Brer Buzzard, who came up short in the new tale ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:t11:o1:1 # text = Brer Buzzard, who came up short in the new tale 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | Brer | | | | | short *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Brer Turtle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:t11:o2:1 # text = Brer Turtle 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Brer Possum ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:t11:o3:1 # text = Brer Possum 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Possum Possum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Brer Buzzard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:579-pg2306-part15:t11:o4:1 # text = Brer Buzzard 1 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Buzzard Buzzard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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