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title: Ok but what did the donkey lament? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok but what did the donkey lament? Test 11 · ★ 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 ch
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# Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

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Ok but what did the donkey lament?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** donkey lament

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t11:1
# text = Ok but what did the donkey lament?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the donkey lament |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lament=Eventuality |

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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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that he was stuck working while the lapdog rested

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t11:o1:1
# text = that he was stuck working while the lapdog rested
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | past | the lapdog |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the cruel weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t11:o2:1
# text = the cruel weather
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weather	weather	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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his own hard fate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t11:o3:1
# text = his own hard fate
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fate** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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how badly he was treated by all of the servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t11:o4:1
# text = how badly he was treated by all of the servants
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | by all; badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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