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description: Which request did the Frogs submit to Jupiter, as recorded in the text? Exam question 1 of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» 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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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

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Which request did the Frogs submit to Jupiter, as recorded in the text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** request, Frogs · **What happens:** do, submit, record · **To what, where:** Jupiter, text

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/365-pg19994-part4/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e1:1
# text = Which request did the Frogs submit to Jupiter, as recorded in the text?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	submit	submit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which request |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **submit** | present | the Frogs |  | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to jupiter=Pivot |
| 3 | **record** | participle | which request *not said here* |  |  | the text |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a petition for a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e1:o1:1
# text = a petition for a king
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a plea for rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e1:o2:1
# text = a plea for rain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plea	plea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a written letter of peace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e1:o3:1
# text = a written letter of peace
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **letter** |  |  | peace |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a request for rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e1:o4:1
# text = a request for rain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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