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title: Bro, what did the donkey say he should have done? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the donkey say he should have done? Test 7 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

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Bro, what did the donkey say he should have done?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** donkey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the donkey say he should have done?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the donkey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | should · perfect | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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toil beside his fellow beasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t7:o1:1
# text = toil beside his fellow beasts
1	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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labour with his companions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t7:o2:1
# text = labour with his companions
1	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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work alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t7:o3:1
# text = work alone
1	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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work with the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:387-pg21-part8:t7:o4:1
# text = work with the others
1	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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