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title: Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog? — Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, part 17: Brer Bear…

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Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Brer Frog

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t6:1
# text = Bruh, what did Bear ask Brer Frog?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support |  |  | Brer Frog |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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"Is you seed Brer Rabbit go by here today?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t6:o1:1
# text = "Is you seed Brer Rabbit go by here today?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | seed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | seed |  |  |  | today |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by here=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Where's Rabbit?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t6:o2:1
# text = "Where's Rabbit?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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"Is you seed Brer Rabbit?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t6:o3:1
# text = "Is you seed Brer Rabbit?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | seed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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"Seen Rabbit?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:581-pg2306-part17:t6:o4:1
# text = "Seen Rabbit?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | participle |  | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus |

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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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