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title: What question did the Camel-driver put to his beast concerning the j… — Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What question did the Camel-driver put to his beast concerning the journey? Exam question 3 of lesson 393 «Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a bird begs for its life, a Cock argues, and many short animal tales follow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

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What question did the Camel-driver put to his beast concerning the journey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** question, beast · **What happens:** do, put, concern · **To what, where:** Camel driver, journey

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 393 «Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a bird begs for its life, a Cock argues, and many short animal tales follow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/393-pg21-part14/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:393-pg21-part14:e3:1
# text = What question did the Camel-driver put to his beast concerning the journey?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what question | the Camel driver |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | participle |  | the Camel driver *not said here* |  |  |  | to question's beast | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | question's beast *not said here* | the journey |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus journey=Experiencer |

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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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Whether he preferred going up or down hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:393-pg21-part14:e3:o1:1
# text = Whether he preferred going up or down hill
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go up** *not said to happen* | gerund | he *not said here* | hill |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whether he liked the hill more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:393-pg21-part14:e3:o2:1
# text = Whether he liked the hill more
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | he | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hill=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Which way he wanted to walk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:393-pg21-part14:e3:o3:1
# text = Which way he wanted to walk
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Up or down?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:393-pg21-part14:e3:o4:1
# text = Up or down?
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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