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title: what's the Fox's big sharp feature? — Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the Fox's big sharp feature? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 369 «Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox begs a wary Cock to come down with false news of peace» 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 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…

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what's the Fox's big sharp feature?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big sharp feature, Fox · **What happens:** be, feature

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 369 «Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox begs a wary Cock to come down with false news of peace» 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/369-pg19994-part8/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:369-pg19994-part8:t8:1
# text = what's the Fox's big sharp feature?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Fox's big sharp feature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feature** |  | the Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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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Long tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:369-pg19994-part8:t8:o1:1
# text = Long tail
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tail	tail	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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His pointed nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:369-pg19994-part8:t8:o2:1
# text = His pointed nose
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	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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Sharp teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:369-pg19994-part8:t8:o3:1
# text = Sharp teeth
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thick sharp claws

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:369-pg19994-part8:t8:o4:1
# text = Thick sharp claws
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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