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title: ngl, what did Brer Rabbit say he was? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did Brer Rabbit say he was? Test 8 · ★ 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 r
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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ngl, what did Brer Rabbit say he was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** ngl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t8:1
# text = ngl, what did Brer Rabbit say he was?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Brer | ngl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | Brer |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the swiftest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t8:o1:1
# text = the swiftest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the swiftest animal in the whole woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t8:o2:1
# text = the swiftest animal in the whole woods
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the fastest runner of them all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t8:o3:1
# text = the fastest runner of them all
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the cleverest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t8:o4:1
# text = the cleverest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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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