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title: So what did the Hedgehog offer to do for him? — Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgeh… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what did the Hedgehog offer to do for him? Test 4 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

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So what did the Hedgehog offer to do for him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hedgehog · **What happens:** offer, do

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t4:1
# text = So what did the Hedgehog offer to do for him?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | the Hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Hedgehog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Hedgehog | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Shoo the flies away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = Shoo the flies away
1	Shoo	shoo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoo away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the flies |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lift the Fox out of the ravine and carry him all the way home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = Lift the Fox out of the ravine and carry him all the way home
1	Lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Fox |  | the ravine |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fox=Theme out ravine=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Fox |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked*; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bring some fresh water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = Bring some fresh water
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | some fresh water |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Chase the flies off with a stick and then tend his wounds carefully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:396-pg21-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = Chase the flies off with a stick and then tend his wounds carefully
1	Chase	chase	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase off** | imperative | you *not said here* | the flies |  |  |  | with a stick | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 2 | **tend** | present | you *not said here* | his wounds |  |  | then | carefully *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme |
| 3 | **wound** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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