--- title: how many birds got clobbered, like one on the head, one in the legs… — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Roo… · tree and pragmatics description: how many birds got clobbered, like one on the head, one in the legs and what? Test 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 dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/151-pg11339-part21/t3/) [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/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm… how many birds got clobbered, like one on the head, one in the legs and what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** clobber · **To what, where:** many birds This is test 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. 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t3:1 # text = how many birds got clobbered, like one on the head, one in the legs and what? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 clobbered clobber VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 parataxis _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clobber** | past · passive | | many birds | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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} one in the wing and one somewhere else ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t3:o1:1 # text = one in the wing and one somewhere else 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 7 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 6 advmod _ _ 8 else else ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} one in leg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t3:o2:1 # text = one in leg 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} one on wing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t3:o3:1 # text = one on wing 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} one in the wing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:151-pg11339-part21:t3:o4:1 # text = one in the wing 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` 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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