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title: so like, what did Brer Bear claim he was? — Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Streng… · tree and pragmatics
description: so like, what did Brer Bear claim he was? Test 9 · ★ 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 w
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# Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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so like, what did Brer Bear claim he was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** claim

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t9:1
# text = so like, what did Brer Bear claim he was?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · do-support | Brer | claim |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary claim=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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the toughest and meanest animal around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t9:o1:1
# text = the toughest and meanest animal around
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toughest	tough	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	meanest	mean	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the smartest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t9:o2:1
# text = the smartest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smartest	smart	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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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the strongest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t9:o3:1
# text = the strongest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the strongest of all the animals here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:t9:o4:1
# text = the strongest of all the animals here
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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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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