--- title: Fam, what made the donkey mad? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog… · tree and pragmatics description: Fam, what made the donkey mad? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/387-pg21-part8/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/387-pg21-part8/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous… Fam, what made the donkey mad? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** donkey This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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/387-pg21-part8/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t10:1 # text = Fam, what made the donkey mad? 1 Fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Fam | the donkey | | | | mad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset donkey=Product | 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} the lapdog's treats, warm bed and the idle life he led ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t10:o1:1 # text = the lapdog's treats, warm bed and the idle life he led 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lapdog lapdog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | he | the idle life *not said here* | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the treats and the idle life ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t10:o2:1 # text = the treats and the idle life 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 idle idle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the hard work and beatings ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t10:o3:1 # text = the hard work and beatings 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 beatings beating NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the heavy loads and whips ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t10:o4:1 # text = the heavy loads and whips 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 whips whip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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