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title: Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first? Test 9 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

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Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mercury · **What happens:** wing, fish out · **To what, where:** god

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t9:1
# text = Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first?
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fish out** | past · do-support | Mercury | the god with the winged shoes |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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A bronze axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t9:o1:1
# text = A bronze axe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t9:o2:1
# text = Silver
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A spade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t9:o3:1
# text = A spade
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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A golden axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t9:o4:1
# text = A golden axe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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