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title: wait, which two dudes found the axe? — Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, which two dudes found the axe? Test 4 · ★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

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wait, which two dudes found the axe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, two dudes · **What happens:** wait, find · **To what, where:** axe

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t4:1
# text = wait, which two dudes found the axe?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dudes	dude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 | **find** | past | two dudes | the axe |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme axe=Attribute |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two boys by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = two boys by the river
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two farmers on the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = two farmers on the road
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	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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two old men walking together and carrying heavy sacks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = two old men walking together and carrying heavy sacks
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | two old men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | two old men *not said here* | heavy sacks |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |

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

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two men walking together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = two men walking together
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | two men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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