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title: Bruh, what did the frogs even ask for, like seriously? — Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what did the frogs even ask for, like seriously? Test 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 option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

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Bruh, what did the frogs even ask for, like seriously?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, ask · **To what, where:** frogs

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:t1:1
# text = Bruh, what did the frogs even ask for, like seriously?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the frogs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 log

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:t1:o1:1
# text = a log
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:t1:o2:1
# text = a boss
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:t1:o3:1
# text = a king
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	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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a queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:365-pg19994-part4:t1:o4:1
# text = a queen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	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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