---
title: Which signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling? Exam question 1 of lesson 151 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** signal · **What happens:** do, summon · **To what, where:** Farmer employ, sling

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 151 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes» 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/151-pg11339-part21/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e1:1
# text = Which signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which signal | the Farmer employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **summon** | to-infinitive | which signal *not said here* | the sling |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e1:o1:1
# text = a cough
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sharp "whistle"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e1:o2:1
# text = a sharp "whistle"
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the word "humph"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e1:o3:1
# text = the word "humph"
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	humph	humph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e1:o4:1
# text = a whistle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/t13/)
- next →: [Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/e2/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/)