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title: Wait, what did the Stork call his own character? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the Stork call his own character? Test 13 · ★ 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 question and of each opt
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# Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

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Wait, what did the Stork call his own character?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Stork · **What happens:** wait, call · **To what, where:** own character · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t13:1
# text = Wait, what did the Stork call his own character?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Stork	Stork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past · do-support | the Stork | Stork's own character |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme character=Result |

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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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excellent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t13:o1:1
# text = excellent
1	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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very humble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t13:o2:1
# text = very humble
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t13:o3:1
# text = fine
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t13:o4:1
# text = poor
1	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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