--- title: The ass and the fox, who got eaten first? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:… · tree and pragmatics description: The ass and the fox, who got eaten first? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t12/) [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/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as… The ass and the fox, who got eaten first? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** ass This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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/134-pg11339-part4/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t12:1 # text = The ass and the fox, who got eaten first? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · passive | | the ass and the fox | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} The lion ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t12:o1:1 # text = The lion 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The fox ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t12:o2:1 # text = The fox 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The ass was eaten first by the lion who was hungry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t12:o3:1 # text = The ass was eaten first by the lion who was hungry 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · passive | the lion | the ass | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the lion | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} The mouse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t12:o4:1 # text = The mouse 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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