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title: Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear? — Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear? Test 6 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

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Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Possum

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t6:1
# text = Who was snitchin' on Possum to Brer Bear?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	snitchin	snitchin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Possum	possum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Possum to Brer Bear |  | snitchin *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Brer Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t6:o1:1
# text = Brer Fox
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Brer Rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t6:o2:1
# text = Brer Rabbit
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brer Terrapin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t6:o3:1
# text = Brer Terrapin
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Terrapin	Terrapin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brer Bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:583-pg2306-part19:t6:o4:1
# text = Brer Bear
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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