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title: No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited? — Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head:… · tree and pragmatics
description: No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 584 «Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Bear into a bee-tree, then Brer Rabbit is caught in Mr. Man's trap» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

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No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lie · **What happens:** do, look, wait · **To what, where:** Brer

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 584 «Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Bear into a bee-tree, then Brer Rabbit is caught in Mr. Man's trap» 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/584-pg2306-part20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t10:1
# text = No lie, how did Brer Rabbit look while he waited?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	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 |  | Brer |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | present | no lie |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | past | lie |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Like he was just about to laugh at the whole joke he had planned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t10:o1:1
# text = Like he was just about to laugh at the whole joke he had planned
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  | the whole joke |  | about, laugh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plan** | past · perfect | he | the whole joke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic |

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

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Like it was about to happen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t10:o2:1
# text = Like it was about to happen
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like he was pretty happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t10:o3:1
# text = Like he was pretty happy
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | happy, pretty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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As if he was sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t10:o4:1
# text = As if he was sleepy
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | tree rules |

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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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