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title: Of what physical condition was the Stork when he was captured? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what physical condition was the Stork when he was captured? Exam question 2 of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

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Of what physical condition was the Stork when he was captured?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** physical condition · **What happens:** be, capture · **To what, where:** Stork

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» 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/385-pg21-part6/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e2:1
# text = Of what physical condition was the Stork when he was captured?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
3	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Stork	Stork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | physical condition | the Stork |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | past · passive |  | Stork |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of what=Source |

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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 broken wing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e2:o1:1
# text = a broken wing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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

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a fractured leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e2:o2:1
# text = a fractured leg
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fracture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a fractured leg and a torn wing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e2:o3:1
# text = a fractured leg and a torn wing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fractured	fracture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fracture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bruised neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:e2:o4:1
# text = a bruised neck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bruise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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