--- title: Bruh, what did Brer Rabbit tell Fox about the wedding? — Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head:… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruh, what did Brer Rabbit tell Fox about the wedding? Test 9 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/584-pg2306-part20/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/584-pg2306-part20/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Brer Bear's Swelled Head: Brer Rabbit tricks… Bruh, what did Brer Rabbit tell Fox about the wedding? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Brer · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t9:1 # text = Bruh, what did Brer Rabbit tell Fox about the wedding? 1 Bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Brer | | Fox | | | about the wedding | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient about wedding=Topic | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} He had to go to it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t9:o1:1 # text = He had to go to it 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | He | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | | | it | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} He would be late ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t9:o2:1 # text = He would be late 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | He | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t9:o3:1 # text = Yes 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} He went ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:584-pg2306-part20:t9:o4:1 # text = He went 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | He | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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