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title: ok so the rock thing, who actually got the dust out? — Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Su… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so the rock thing, who actually got the dust out? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 585 «Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust: Fox is tied up and beaten, Rabbit wins a wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok so the rock thing, who actually got the dust out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rock thing · **What happens:** get out · **To what, where:** dust

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 585 «Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit, Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust: Fox is tied up and beaten, Rabbit wins a wife» 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/585-pg2306-part21/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:585-pg2306-part21:t5:1
# text = ok so the rock thing, who actually got the dust out?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | past | the rock thing | the dust |  |  |  | actually *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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brer rabbit did it with the sludge-hammer, massive slay fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:585-pg2306-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = brer rabbit did it with the sludge-hammer, massive slay fr
1	brer	br	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	slay	slay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | brer rabbit | it |  |  |  | with the sludge hammer and massive slay fr | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the girls actually pulled it out, then rabbit kinda took the credit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:585-pg2306-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = the girls actually pulled it out, then rabbit kinda took the credit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | past | the girls | it |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | rabbit | the credit |  |  | then | kinda *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brer fox, got it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:585-pg2306-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = brer fox, got it
1	brer	brer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | brer fox | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
brer rabbit, slay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:585-pg2306-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = brer rabbit, slay
1	brer	brer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | infinitive | brer rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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