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title: bruh, why did the Lion finally pounce? — Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, why did the Lion finally pounce? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

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bruh, why did the Lion finally pounce?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Lion

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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/372-pg19994-part11/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t9:1
# text = bruh, why did the Lion finally pounce?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pounce	pounce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Lion |  |  |  | pounce *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=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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they were hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t9:o1:1
# text = they were hungry
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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

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the Bullocks had a quarrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t9:o2:1
# text = the Bullocks had a quarrel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bullocks	Bullock	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Bullocks | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Bullocks all fell asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t9:o3:1
# text = the Bullocks all fell asleep
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bullocks	Bullock	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the Bullocks |  |  |  |  | all, asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Bullocks grew sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t9:o4:1
# text = the Bullocks grew sleepy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Bullocks |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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