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title: Yo, what did the tree say to the rude Travellers? — Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Cam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the tree say to the rude Travellers? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

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Yo, what did the tree say to the rude Travellers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** rude Travellers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» 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/147-pg11339-part17/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:147-pg11339-part17:t4:1
# text = Yo, what did the tree say to the rude Travellers?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the tree |  | the rude Travellers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to traveller=Recipient |

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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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You ungrateful creature, now take your rude mouths away from my shade forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:147-pg11339-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = You ungrateful creature, now take your rude mouths away from my shade forever
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | ungrateful creature *not said here* | your rude mouths |  |  | now | away, forever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
| 2 | **shade** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You rude little beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:147-pg11339-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = You rude little beast
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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"You ungrateful creature"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:147-pg11339-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = "You ungrateful creature"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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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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You ungrateful creatures, after all the shade I gave you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:147-pg11339-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = You ungrateful creatures, after all the shade I gave you
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | all shade *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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