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title: What did the stranger tell him to do, though? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the stranger tell him to do, though? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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What did the stranger tell him to do, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** tell, do, though · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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/373-pg19994-part12/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t13:1
# text = What did the stranger tell him to do, though?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	though	though	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the stranger |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **though** | infinitive | the stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Cover up the big stone and take the gold somewhere else entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t13:o1:1
# text = Cover up the big stone and take the gold somewhere else entirely
1	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the big stone |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the gold |  |  |  | entirely, somewhere *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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

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Cover up the stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t13:o2:1
# text = Cover up the stone
1	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cover up the stone with dirt and leave it be for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t13:o3:1
# text = Cover up the stone with dirt and leave it be for good
1	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  | with dirt | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Destination with dirt=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | infinitive | stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for good | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Count the coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t13:o4:1
# text = Count the coins
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the coins |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=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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