--- title: What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping cr… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear… · tree and pragmatics description: What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping crows from the pea patch? Exam question 1 of lesson 581 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear takes Rabbit's place on the sapling, gets beaten, then is tricked by Bull-frog» of the books course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/581-pg2306-part17/e1/) [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 Bear…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/581-pg2306-part17/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear… What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping crows from the pea patch? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** do, earn, keep · **To what, where:** Rabbit state, crows, pea patch This is exam question 1 of lesson 581 «Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear takes Rabbit's place on the sapling, gets beaten, then is tricked by Bull-frog» 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/581-pg2306-part17/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e1:1 # text = What sum did Brer Rabbit state he earned per minute while keeping crows from the pea patch? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 earned earn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 per per ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | what sum | Rabbit state | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality | | 2 | **earn** | past | sum | | | | minute | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | sum *not said here* | | crows | the pea patch | | | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer crow=Beneficiary from patch=Eventuality | 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} one quarter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e1:o1:1 # text = one quarter 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} ten cents ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e1:o2:1 # text = ten cents 1 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 cents cent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} one dollar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e1:o3:1 # text = one dollar 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 dollar dollar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a nickel ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e1:o4:1 # text = a nickel 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nickel nickel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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