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title: To whom does the little boy address his questions concerning the tai… — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom does the little boy address his questions concerning the tails of rabbits? Exam question 1 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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To whom does the little boy address his questions concerning the tails of rabbits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** questions, his · **What happens:** do, concern, question · **To what, where:** little boy address, tails

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» 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/582-pg2306-part18/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e1:1
# text = To whom does the little boy address his questions concerning the tails of rabbits?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the little boy address |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Eventuality |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | his questions *not said here* | the tails of rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tail=Experiencer |
| 3 | **question** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Miss Meadows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e1:o1:1
# text = Miss Meadows
1	Miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brer Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e1:o2:1
# text = Brer Fox
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Uncle Remus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e1:o3:1
# text = Uncle Remus
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e1:o4:1
# text = his father
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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