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title: Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be? Test 4 · ★ 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; Mova
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old lion · **What happens:** pretend, be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t4:1
# text = Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past · do-support | the old lion |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive | the old lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Dead proper sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = Dead proper sick
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dead ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = Dead ill
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Proper bad off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = Proper bad off
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Well knackered out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = Well knackered out
1	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	knackered	knacker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knacker out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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