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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

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To which animal did the Fox offer a morsel he had discovered in a trap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** do, offer, discover · **To what, where:** morsel, trap

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/138-pg11339-part8/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:138-pg11339-part8:e1:1
# text = To which animal did the Fox offer a morsel he had discovered in a trap?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to which animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | infinitive | the Fox | a morsel |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 3 | **discover** | past · perfect | Fox | a morsel *not said here* |  | a trap |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Topic |

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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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The Cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:138-pg11339-part8:e1:o1:1
# text = The Cock
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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The Ass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:138-pg11339-part8:e1:o2:1
# text = The Ass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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The Monkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:138-pg11339-part8:e1:o3:1
# text = The Monkey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:138-pg11339-part8:e1:o4:1
# text = The Lion
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	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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