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title: To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men? Exam question 2 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 pra
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

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To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Rooks · **What happens:** direct, warn · **To what, where:** warning

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e2:1
# text = To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rooks	rook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	direct	direct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **direct** | past · do-support | the Rooks | Rooks's warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** |  | Rooks *= rook* |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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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to the passing cranes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e2:o1:1
# text = to the passing cranes
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to the passing cranes flying overhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e2:o2:1
# text = to the passing cranes flying overhead
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	cranes	crane	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	overhead	overhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crane** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the passing | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  | overhead |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location overhead=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to the farmer's wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e2:o3:1
# text = to the farmer's wife
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	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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to the ducks and the geese at the pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e2:o4:1
# text = to the ducks and the geese at the pond
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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