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title: Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep? — Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

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Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** try, nick

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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/155-pg11339-part25/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t5:1
# text = Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · do-support | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the sheep | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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A little ram, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t5:o1:1
# text = A little ram, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A hen, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t5:o2:1
# text = A hen, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A goose, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t5:o3:1
# text = A goose, innit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A lamb, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t5:o4:1
# text = A lamb, innit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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