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title: What did the Ass get done for, then? — Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Ass get done for, then? Test 12 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

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What did the Ass get done for, then?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t12:1
# text = What did the Ass get done for, then?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Ass |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |

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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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eating some farmer's oats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = eating some farmer's oats
1	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | some farmer's oats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient |

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

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eating some priests' grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = eating some priests' grass
1	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | some priests's grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nicking some priests' hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = nicking some priests' hay
1	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | gerund |  | some priests's hay |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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eating some priests' grass, the daft donkey, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = eating some priests' grass, the daft donkey, bruv
1	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | some priests's grass and the daft donkey and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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