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description: Which creature does the Jackdaw seek to imitate in order to gain admission to the cote? Exam question 1 of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

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Which creature does the Jackdaw seek to imitate in order to gain admission to the cote?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** seek, imitate, gain · **To what, where:** order, admission

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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/398-pg21-part19/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e1:1
# text = Which creature does the Jackdaw seek to imitate in order to gain admission to the cote?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present · do-support | which creature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imitate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* |  |  | order |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* | admission |  |  |  | to the cote *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient admission=Extent to cote=Result |

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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 {#o1}

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The gentle Dove among the flock of doves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e1:o1:1
# text = The gentle Dove among the flock of doves
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dove	Dove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Dove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e1:o2:1
# text = The Dove
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dove	Dove	PROPN	NNP	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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The Pigeon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e1:o3:1
# text = The Pigeon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	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 white Dove that lives in the cote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e1:o4:1
# text = The white Dove that lives in the cote
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the white Dove |  |  | the cote |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cote=Location |

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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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