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title: Who swooped down and grabbed the winning Cock? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who swooped down and grabbed the winning Cock? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

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Who swooped down and grabbed the winning Cock?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** swoop down, grab, win · **To what, where:** winning Cock

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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/379-pg19994-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t10:1
# text = Who swooped down and grabbed the winning Cock?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grab** | past |  | the winning Cock |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme |
| 3 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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a great golden Eagle from the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = a great golden Eagle from the hills
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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an Eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = an Eagle
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	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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a hungry Eagle swooping from the sky above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = a hungry Eagle swooping from the sky above
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop** | gerund | a hungry Eagle *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  | above *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a Vulture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = a Vulture
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vulture	vulture	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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