--- title: what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics description: what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/t11/) [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/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm… what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** keep, beg, find · **To what, where:** ass This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t11:1 # text = what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 begging beg VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ass ass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | the dog | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the dog *not said here* | the ass and mate | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the dog *not said here* | the ass and mate *not said here* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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} corn and oats ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t11:o1:1 # text = corn and oats 1 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 oats oat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} meat and bones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t11:o2:1 # 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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t11:o3:1 # text = bread 1 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} meat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t11:o4:1 # text = meat 1 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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