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title: What did the little fish offer in return? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the little fish offer in return? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

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What did the little fish offer in return?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little fish · **What happens:** do, offer · **To what, where:** return

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t7:1
# text = What did the little fish offer in return?
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	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the little fish |  |  | return |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 meal later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t7:o1:1
# text = a meal later
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a grand dinner someday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t7:o2:1
# text = a grand dinner someday
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	someday	someday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a proper big meal later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t7:o3:1
# text = a proper big meal later
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a decent feast after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:t7:o4:1
# text = a decent feast after
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	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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