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title: Sus question: what's "molest" supposed to mean? — Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgeh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus question: what's "molest" supposed to mean? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

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Sus question: what's "molest" supposed to mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus question · **What happens:** be, suppose, mean

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» 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/396-pg21-part17/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t11:1
# text = Sus question: what's "molest" supposed to mean?
1	Sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	molest	mol	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sus question |  |  |  |  | mol *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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To cover something completely with thick mud or dirt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t11:o1:1
# text = To cover something completely with thick mud or dirt
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | with thick mud or dirt; completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Destination with mud=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To hide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t11:o2:1
# text = To hide
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To tickle gently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t11:o3:1
# text = To tickle gently
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tickle	tickle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tickle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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

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To bother or pester

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t11:o4:1
# text = To bother or pester
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bother	bother	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pester	pester	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bother** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pester** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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