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title: Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing? Test 12 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

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Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** song · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** frog sing

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t12:1
# text = Yo, what song did Bull-frog sing?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Bull	bull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | song | frog sing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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"My joy"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = "My joy"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joy** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = "Ingle-go-jang, my joy"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ingle	Ingle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	jang	jang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ingle | jang |  |  |  | my joy *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **joy** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Ingle-go-jang"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t12:o3:1
# text = "Ingle-go-jang"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ingle	Ingle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	jang	jang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ingle | jang |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"Ole-dum-day, my pride"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = "Ole-dum-day, my pride"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dum	dum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pride** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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