--- title: Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox into… — how Mova does on the tests · Books description: Lesson 569 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 13 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/569-pg2306-part5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/) / 569 # Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 5: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox into the brier-patch **Tests:** 2 of 13 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 11 of 17 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 569 of the books course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} Dude, why did Brer Fox think he finally had Brer Rabbit? - **1.** Cause the rabbit was stuck to that tar doll, bro — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1 - **2.** Cause the rabbit was tied up tight — score -2 - **3.** Cause the fox had a big net, dude — no support - **4.** Cause he was stuck — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score -1, against -2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 21, line 2: «Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same circumstance (+1). Against it: the same doer «rabbit» (-1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t2} Bruh, what did the fox say he'd do, like, for real? - **1.** Hang him from a tree — **← Mova's choice** · score -2 - **2.** Roast him up good over a fire for a bobby-cue, no lie — no support - **3.** Roast him up for a bobby-cue — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Grill him on the fire rack — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 569, line 14: «Brer Fox threatens to "'hang you'," "'drown you'," and "'skin you'," but says there is "'no water nigh'."», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+1). Against it: the same action «hang» (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} Wait, why did the rabbit beg so hard not to get chucked in the patch? - **1.** Cause it's scary — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Cause it was too far off — no support - **3.** Cause he was super hungry — no support - **4.** Cause he was lowkey scared of it — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Yo, how'd the rabbit get out after the fox threw him in? - **1.** He bounced out like a cricket — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He crawled out real slow — **← Mova's choice** · score 3 - **3.** He just hopped out — no support - **4.** He ran off like a deer — score 3 **Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 567, line 5: «Brer Rabbit asks for calamus root, runs off into the bushes, and Brer Fox crawls out after him.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «crawl out» (+4). Against it: the same doer «brer fox» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Bro, where did the rabbit sit after he got out? - **1.** On a chinkapin log way up the hill, chillin' like nothing happened — no support - **2.** On a chinkapin log up the hill — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Sitting on a big chinkapin log right up the hill by the old barn — **← Mova's choice** · score 6 - **4.** In a hole by the creek — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask where. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 569, line 17: «Afterwards Brer Rabbit sits on "a chinkapin log" up the hill, picking tar out of his hair with a chip.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «sit» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6} Like, what was the rabbit picking out of his hair? - **1.** Mud from the creek — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Leaves and sticks — no support - **3.** Tar from the doll — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Burrs — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Dude, what did the rabbit yell as he peaced out? - **1.** Ha, I'm outta here fox — no support - **2.** Peace out — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **3.** Bred and raised in a briar-patch — score 0 - **4.** Bred and born in a brier-patch — **✓ the right answer** · score 0 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 20: «Alice thinks «they haven't got much evidence yet», and then the White Rabbit calls the next witness: «Alice!»», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: a different thing acted on (counts against) (+2); the same doer «white rabbit» (+1). Against it: the same action «call» (-1). The right option, 4, scored 0. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Bruh, who was doing all the trash-talking in that tale? - **1.** Brer Fox, sassing the rabbit — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Brer Fox, sassing the rabbit the whole time before he got tricked — no support - **3.** The little boy, mostly — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** Brer Bear, mostly — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 478, line 5: «The villagers stake the corpse, reward the moujik, and then the tale turns to two more stories about vampires.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «two more stories» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9} Like, what did the Crawfishes do when they got mad? - **1.** Dug holes all over and let all the flood water loose on the land — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Dug holes and let the water loose — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Sang a song and called the Lion to help them all stop the rain — no support - **4.** Shouted at the sky — no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} Yo, what did the Elephant do to the Crawfish? - **1.** Squished him flat with his foot — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Kicked him into the river — no support - **3.** Sat on him real hard — no support - **4.** Stepped on him — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Dude, what's the real reason the little boy's story-time ends? - **1.** Mama's dinner — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** His daddy takes him fishing — no support - **3.** The fox runs off now — no support - **4.** His mama calls him to bed — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t11/) ### Test 12 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t12} Bro, what's the old man doing with the yam? - **1.** Roasting it in the ashes of the fire while he sings to the little boy — score 5 - **2.** Washing it in the creek — no support - **3.** Peeling it slowly with his knife while he keeps telling the boy stories — **← Mova's choice** · score 8 - **4.** Peeling it while he talks — **✓ the right answer** · score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 8, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 567, line 7: «Who: Uncle Remus is an old man who tells "the myth-stories" to the little boy night after night.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «tell» (+4); the same thing acted on «myth stories» (+3); the same doer «old man» (+1). The right option, 4, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t12/) ### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13} Like, why was Uncle Remus laughing to himself at the end? - **1.** He was singing about Molly Har' — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** He was reading a book — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **3.** He was thinking of Molly — score 0 - **4.** He was remembering a funny old story about Brer Fox and the tar baby — score -2 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 1, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 92, line 8: «In the story the Magician calls the Man lazy and says his children will be the laziest people in the world, with a made-up name for the people of Malaya. That…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+2). Against it: the same doer «magician» (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/t13/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Which of the following did Brer Fox threaten to do to Brer Rabbit before throwing him into the brier-patch? - **1.** Hang him high — no support - **2.** Roast him over a brush fire — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 0 - **3.** Bake him in a pie — no support - **4.** Drown him in the creek — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 569, line 2: «Brer Fox rolls on the ground laughing and tells Brer Rabbit he will roast him over a brush fire.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same place «brush fire» (+3); the same action «roast» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2} In whose presence did the Crawfishes first draw up their petition, according to the old man's account? - **1.** In the assembly of the animals — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Before the Lion and the Elephant at the edge of the rising water — no support - **3.** In the great assembly of all the animals gathered at the meeting place — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **4.** In the middle of the flood — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 332, line 16: «old word: "virulent" means very strong or deadly, so it describes poison that can kill fast.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3} What was the immediate consequence of the Crawfishes' burrowing, as described in the tale of the flood? - **1.** The waters rose and drowned the creatures — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The waters dried up and the animals were saved from the flood — no support - **3.** The waters rose higher and higher and drowned all the creatures on the land — no support - **4.** The land was flooded fast — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Which phrase, used by Brer Rabbit, expresses his claim to belong in the brier-patch? - **1.** Born in the thorny bushes — **← Mova's choice** · score 1 - **2.** Ain't no fox gonna keep me out, I was bred and born in the briars — no support - **3.** I'm a fox, not a rabbit — no support - **4.** Bred and born in a brier-patch — **✓ the right answer** · score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 1, tied with another option at 1 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 364, line 19: «"Doubled up with laughter" means laughing so hard that you bend over, a phrase that is still used.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/569-pg2306-part5/e4/) - ← previous: [568. Uncle Remus, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story: Brer…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/568-pg2306-part4/) - next →: [570. Uncle Remus, The Tar-Baby, part 2: Brer Rabbit r…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/570-pg2306-part6/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/)