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title: Which creature was the Owl's intended prey in the second tale of thi… — Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature was the Owl's intended prey in the second tale of this passage? Exam question 2 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
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

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Which creature was the Owl's intended prey in the second tale of this passage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature, passage · **What happens:** intend, be, tell · **To what, where:** intended prey, second tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e2:1
# text = Which creature was the Owl's intended prey in the second tale of this passage?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Owl	Owl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | which creature | the Owl's intended prey |  | the second tale of this passage |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | this passage |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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a Dragonfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e2:o1:1
# text = a Dragonfly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a Grasshopper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e2:o2:1
# text = a Grasshopper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	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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a singing Grasshopper in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e2:o3:1
# text = a singing Grasshopper in the field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a plump Grasshopper resting on a leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:e2:o4:1
# text = a plump Grasshopper resting on a leaf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund | a plump Grasshopper *not said here* |  |  | a leaf |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location |

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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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