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title: What did the young Lark overhear and communicate to her mother? — Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the H… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the young Lark overhear and communicate to her mother? Exam question 4 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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What did the young Lark overhear and communicate to her mother?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** young Lark · **What happens:** do, overhear, communicate

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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/143-pg11339-part13/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e4:1
# text = What did the young Lark overhear and communicate to her mother?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Lark	Lark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	overhear	overhear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	communicate	communicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overhear** | present | the young Lark |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **communicate** | present | the young Lark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Lark's mother | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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The Farmer's plan to reap the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e4:o1:1
# text = The Farmer's plan to reap the field
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reap** | to-infinitive |  | the field |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 2 | **plan** |  | the Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Wolf's plan to steal a lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e4:o2:1
# text = The Wolf's plan to steal a lamb
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | a lamb |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme |
| 2 | **plan** |  | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Farmer's plan to sell cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e4:o3:1
# text = The Farmer's plan to sell cows
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | cows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 2 | **plan** |  | the Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e4:o4:1
# text = A storm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	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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