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title: where did Terrapin tie the rope, bruh? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: where did Terrapin tie the rope, bruh? Test 12 · ★ 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 the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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where did Terrapin tie the rope, bruh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Terrapin · **What happens:** tie · **To what, where:** rope

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t12:1
# text = where did Terrapin tie the rope, bruh?
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · do-support | Terrapin | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |

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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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a stump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t12:o1:1
# text = a stump
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stump	stump	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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a sunken log

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t12:o2:1
# text = a sunken log
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a river reed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t12:o3:1
# text = a river reed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a clay-root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t12:o4:1
# text = a clay-root
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	root	root	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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