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title: Dead easy, how many times did the donkey fall in? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burden… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead easy, how many times did the donkey fall in? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

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Dead easy, how many times did the donkey fall in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** donkey · **What happens:** fall in

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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/137-pg11339-part7/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t6:1
# text = Dead easy, how many times did the donkey fall in?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall in** | past · do-support | the donkey |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = Twice
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Two times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = Two times
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = Three times
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:137-pg11339-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = Four times
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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