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title: bruv, who warned the shepherd not to let the wolf in? — Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury a… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, who warned the shepherd not to let the wolf in? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

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bruv, who warned the shepherd not to let the wolf in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bruv · **What happens:** warn, not let in · **To what, where:** shepherd, wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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/395-pg21-part16/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t12:1
# text = bruv, who warned the shepherd not to let the wolf in?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | bruv |  | the shepherd |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **let in** | to-infinitive |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |

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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 dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t12:o1:1
# text = the dog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t12:o2:1
# text = the goat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t12:o3:1
# text = the ox
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ox	ox	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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dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t12:o4:1
# text = dog
1	dog	dog	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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