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title: Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story? — Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story? Test 12 · ★ 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 qu
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# Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks…

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Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lesson

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t12:1
# text = Real talk, what's the lesson of the bee story?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Real talk | the lesson |  |  |  | of the bee story | 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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Honey is sweet food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t12:o1:1
# text = Honey is sweet food
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Honey | sweet food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lazy folks get trapped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t12:o2:1
# text = Lazy folks get trapped
1	Lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | present · passive |  | Lazy folks |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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

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Greedy folks get stung

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t12:o3:1
# text = Greedy folks get stung
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | present · passive |  | Greedy folks |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tricks get you hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t12:o4:1
# text = Tricks get you hurt
1	Tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Tricks | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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