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title: Mate, who started the bare scrap with the Eagle? — Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who started the bare scrap with the Eagle? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

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Mate, who started the bare scrap with the Eagle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** start · **To what, where:** bare scrap

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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/157-pg11339-part27/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t1:1
# text = Mate, who started the bare scrap with the Eagle?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Mate | the bare scrap |  |  |  | with the Eagle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent scrap=Eventuality with eagle=Subeventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Serpent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t1:o1:1
# text = The Serpent
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The Hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t1:o2:1
# text = The Hunter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t1:o3:1
# text = The Owl
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t1:o4:1
# text = The Farmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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