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title: Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 4 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» 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/583-pg2306-part19/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t4:1
# text = Why'd Brer Bear plant them trees, bro?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | present | Brer | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme tree=Destination |

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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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to get bees to come and buzz around all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t4:o1:1
# text = to get bees to come and buzz around all day long
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	buzz	buzz	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | bees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **buzz around** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | around, long *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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so bees would come and stay right there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t4:o2:1
# text = so bees would come and stay right there
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | bees |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | bees *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to get bees to come

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t4:o3:1
# text = to get bees to come
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | bees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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for shade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t4:o4:1
# text = for shade
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	shade	shade	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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