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title: bro, which beast hit the dying lion first? — Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, which beast hit the dying lion first? Test 7 · ★ 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 w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

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bro, which beast hit the dying lion first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** hit, die · **To what, where:** dying lion

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t7:1
# text = bro, which beast hit the dying lion first?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | bro | the dying lion |  |  |  | first *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lion=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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}

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ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = ox
1	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a boar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = a boar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = hare
1	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the old Hound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = the old Hound
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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