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title: What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern? Exam question 3 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 prag
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

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What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, find · **To what, where:** packet

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e3:1
# text = What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the packet |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  | the packet *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Ass and the Dog concern | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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 {#o1}

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meat and bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e3:o1:1
# text = meat and bones
1	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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seeds for planting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e3:o2:1
# text = seeds for planting
1	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	planting	planting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fodder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e3:o3:1
# text = fodder
1	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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fodder such as grass and hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e3:o4:1
# text = fodder such as grass and hay
1	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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