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title: no cap, what did Brer Fox tell Rabbit to do? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what did Brer Fox tell Rabbit to do? Test 3 · ★ 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 choic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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no cap, what did Brer Fox tell Rabbit to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do, tell · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, Rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t3:1
# text = no cap, what did Brer Fox tell Rabbit to do?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | Brer Fox |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | no cap |  | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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drop his tail in the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t3:o1:1
# text = drop his tail in the water
1	drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | his tail |  | the water |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in water=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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stay still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t3:o2:1
# text = stay still
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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keep his bait in the cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t3:o3:1
# text = keep his bait in the cold
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bait	bait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | his bait |  | the cold |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bait=Theme in cold=Location |
| 2 | **bait** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bait «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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catch a big fish fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t3:o4:1
# text = catch a big fish fast
1	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a big fish |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

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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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