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title: Wait, what did he say he was NOT? — Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did he say he was NOT? Test 6 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choi
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# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

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Wait, what did he say he was NOT?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** wait, say, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t6:1
# text = Wait, what did he say he was NOT?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t6:o1:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a Crane from the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t6:o2:1
# text = a Crane from the field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a Crane but a Stork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t6:o3:1
# text = a Crane but a Stork
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a Crane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:385-pg21-part6:t6:o4:1
# text = a Crane
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crane	crane	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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