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title: With reference to the text, which animal was sacrificed to the gods… — Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young… · tree and pragmatics
description: With reference to the text, which animal was sacrificed to the gods by the assembly of the beasts? Exam question 1 of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» of the books course of Mova's pr
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

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With reference to the text, which animal was sacrificed to the gods by the assembly of the beasts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** assembly · **What happens:** sacrifice · **To what, where:** gods

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/376-pg19994-part15/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:e1:1
# text = With reference to the text, which animal was sacrificed to the gods by the assembly of the beasts?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | past · passive | the assembly of the beasts |  | the gods |  |  | with reference to the text | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient |

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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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The Goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:e1:o1:1
# text = The Goat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	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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The Ass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:e1:o2:1
# text = The Ass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ass	ass	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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The Stag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:e1:o3:1
# text = The Stag
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stag	stag	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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The Bull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:e1:o4:1
# text = The Bull
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bull	bull	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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