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title: bro, what kinda job did the wolf say was his? — Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what kinda job did the wolf say was his? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

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bro, what kinda job did the wolf say was his?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** job, bro · **What happens:** do, say, be · **To what, where:** bro, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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/149-pg11339-part19/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t13:1
# text = bro, what kinda job did the wolf say was his?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | job | bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a butcher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t13:o1:1
# text = a butcher
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a baker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t13:o2:1
# text = a baker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a tailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t13:o3:1
# text = a tailor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	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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a potter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t13:o4:1
# text = a potter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potter	potter	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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