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title: ok so which fable is about the shadow fight? — Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so which fable is about the shadow fight? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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 wa
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# Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

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ok so which fable is about the shadow fight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fable · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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/392-pg21-part13/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t13:1
# text = ok so which fable is about the shadow fight?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which fable |  |  |  |  | about the shadow fight | tree rules |

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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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the ass and his shadow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t13:o1:1
# text = the ass and his shadow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the ass who carried a traveler and his shadow fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t13:o2:1
# text = the ass who carried a traveler and his shadow fight
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the ass | a traveler and ass's shadow fight |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** |  | ass |  |  |  |  |  | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the traveler and the ass who quarreled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t13:o3:1
# text = the traveler and the ass who quarreled
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	quarreled	quarrel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | past | the traveler and the ass |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the traveler's shadow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t13:o4:1
# text = the traveler's shadow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shadow** |  | the traveler |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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