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title: the wolf blamed the fox for a theft, mate, who had to sort that out — Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: the wolf blamed the fox for a theft, mate, who had to sort that out Test 9 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

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the wolf blamed the fox for a theft, mate, who had to sort that out

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolf, theft · **What happens:** blame, have, sort out · **To what, where:** fox, that

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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/145-pg11339-part15/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t9:1
# text = the wolf blamed the fox for a theft, mate, who had to sort that out
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past | the wolf | the fox |  |  |  | for a theft and mate | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme for theft=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past | a theft and mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sort out** | to-infinitive | a theft and mate *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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an ape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t9:o1:1
# text = an ape
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ape	ape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wise old monkey from the jungle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t9:o2:1
# text = a wise old monkey from the jungle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a judge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t9:o3:1
# text = a judge
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the lion, who was king of the whole forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t9:o4:1
# text = the lion, who was king of the whole forest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the lion | king |  |  |  | of the whole forest | tree rules |

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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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