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title: Bruv, where did the Ass lurk to scare everyone? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, where did the Ass lurk to scare everyone? Test 2 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

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Bruv, where did the Ass lurk to scare everyone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, scare · **To what, where:** Ass lurk, everyone

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t2:1
# text = Bruv, where did the Ass lurk to scare everyone?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Ass	Ass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lurk	lurk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Ass lurk |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lurk=Eventuality |
| 2 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer |

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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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in a thicket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t2:o1:1
# text = in a thicket
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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by a pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t2:o2:1
# text = by a pond
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pond	pond	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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behind a rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t2:o3:1
# text = behind a rock
1	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	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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inside a hollow tree by the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t2:o4:1
# text = inside a hollow tree by the stream
1	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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