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title: So how'd Rabbit get back home, for real? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzz… · tree and pragmatics
description: So how'd Rabbit get back home, for real? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 580 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit tricks Buzzard into carrying him home from the island» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit…

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So how'd Rabbit get back home, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** get back

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 580 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard, part 16: Rabbit tricks Buzzard into carrying him home from the island» 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/580-pg2306-part16/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:580-pg2306-part16:t6:1
# text = So how'd Rabbit get back home, for real?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | would | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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Buzzard took him home because they split things fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:580-pg2306-part16:t6:o1:1
# text = Buzzard took him home because they split things fair
1	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Buzzard |  | him *= he* |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **split** | past | they | things |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He swam back after they split the gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:580-pg2306-part16:t6:o2:1
# text = He swam back after they split the gold
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim back** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **split** | past | they | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Buzzard carried him back home since they had agreed to split everything fairly between them both

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:580-pg2306-part16:t6:o3:1
# text = Buzzard carried him back home since they had agreed to split everything fairly between them both
1	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
13	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | past | Buzzard | him *= he* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **split** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | between them *= they*; fairly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Buzzard carried him back since they had to split things fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:580-pg2306-part16:t6:o4:1
# text = Buzzard carried him back since they had to split things fair
1	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | past | Buzzard | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **split** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | things |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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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