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title: What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating aga… — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating against Brer Bull-frog? Exam question 4 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 sch
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

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What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating against Brer Bull-frog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** bear, wait, retaliate · **To what, where:** vow

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e4:1
# text = What period of time did Brer Bear vow to wait before retaliating against Brer Bull-frog?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	retaliating	retaliate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · do-support | Brer | vow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **retaliate** | gerund | Brer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Brer Bull frog | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against frog=Maleficiary |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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one year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = one year
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	year	year	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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two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = two years
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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one whole year and a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = one whole year and a day
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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until the next harvest season came around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = until the next harvest season came around
1	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come around** | past | the next harvest season |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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