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description: mate the crow pretended to eat with the pigeon but was secretly doing what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

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mate the crow pretended to eat with the pigeon but was secretly doing what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** pretend, eat, do

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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/1855-pg7128-part39/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1855-pg7128-part39:t3:1
# text = mate the crow pretended to eat with the pigeon but was secretly doing what?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the pigeon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · progressive | mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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eating fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1855-pg7128-part39:t3:o1:1
# text = eating fish
1	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | fish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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eating rotten bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1855-pg7128-part39:t3:o2:1
# text = eating rotten bread
1	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | rotten bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stealing food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1855-pg7128-part39:t3:o3:1
# text = stealing food
1	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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gobbling fat worms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1855-pg7128-part39:t3:o4:1
# text = gobbling fat worms
1	gobbling	gobble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble** | gerund |  | fat worms |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent worm=Theme |

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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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