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title: fr why'd the peasant wanna chop the apple tree — Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr why'd the peasant wanna chop the apple tree Test 5 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

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fr why'd the peasant wanna chop the apple tree

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** peasant · **What happens:** chop · **To what, where:** apple tree

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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/139-pg11339-part9/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t5:1
# text = fr why'd the peasant wanna chop the apple tree
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
6	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	chop	chop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | infinitive | the peasant | the apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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too old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t5:o1:1
# text = too old
1	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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it was all dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t5:o2:1
# text = it was all dead
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it was too tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t5:o3:1
# text = it was too tall
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |

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

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no fruit on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:139-pg11339-part9:t5:o4:1
# text = no fruit on it
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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