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title: Lol, what did the Bee ask Jupiter for, you muppet? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the Bee ask Jupiter for, you muppet? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

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Lol, what did the Bee ask Jupiter for, you muppet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bee · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Jupiter

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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/136-pg11339-part6/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:t9:1
# text = Lol, what did the Bee ask Jupiter for, you muppet?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bee	Bee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	muppet	muppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the Bee |  | Jupiter |  |  | for muppet | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stings for the bees to kill robbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = Stings for the bees to kill robbers
1	Stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Stings for the bees | robbers |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A sting for each bee to kill any robber who comes near the hive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = A sting for each bee to kill any robber who comes near the hive
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | any robber |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | any robber |  |  | the hive |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hive=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stings for killing robbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = Stings for killing robbers
1	Stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | gerund | Stings *not said here* | robbers |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stings to kill the thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = Stings to kill the thieves
1	Stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Stings | the thieves |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme |

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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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