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title: What quality of men did the Rook identify as fatal to their companio… — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quality of men did the Rook identify as fatal to their companions? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

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What quality of men did the Rook identify as fatal to their companions?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality, Rook · **What happens:** do, identify

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e4:1
# text = What quality of men did the Rook identify as fatal to their companions?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rook	Rook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what quality of men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | present | the Rook |  |  |  |  | as fatal | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as fatal=Attribute |

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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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saying kind things while planning harm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e4:o1:1
# text = saying kind things while planning harm
1	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | kind things |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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speaking very loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e4:o2:1
# text = speaking very loudly
1	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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speaking one thing while meaning another

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e4:o3:1
# text = speaking one thing while meaning another
1	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | one thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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pretending to be friends while plotting evil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:e4:o4:1
# text = pretending to be friends while plotting evil
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	xcomp	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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