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title: so did Brer Bear pull Terrapin out? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: so did Brer Bear pull Terrapin out? Test 14 · ★ 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 ri
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# Test 14 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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so did Brer Bear pull Terrapin out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** pull out · **To what, where:** Terrapin

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t14:1
# text = so did Brer Bear pull Terrapin out?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | past · do-support | Brer | Terrapin |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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no, he didn't budge him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t14:o1:1
# text = no, he didn't budge him
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **budge** | past · do-support | he | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, Terrapin came out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t14:o2:1
# text = yes, Terrapin came out
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | Terrapin |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no, Terrapin fell over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t14:o3:1
# text = no, Terrapin fell over
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall over** | past | Terrapin |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yes, Bear dragged him out of the mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t14:o4:1
# text = yes, Bear dragged him out of the mud
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | Bear | him *= he* |  | the mud |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out mud=Initial\_Location |

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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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