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title: Proper sus, what did the Cock make the Fox go and do? — Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper sus, what did the Cock make the Fox go and do? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

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Proper sus, what did the Cock make the Fox go and do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proper sus, Fox · **What happens:** do, make, go · **To what, where:** Cock, Fox

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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/399-pg21-part20/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t4:1
# text = Proper sus, what did the Cock make the Fox go and do?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Proper sus | the Cock |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | present | Proper sus | the Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Fetch the cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t4:o1:1
# text = Fetch the cock
1	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cock |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Wake the Dog up in the trunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t4:o2:1
# text = Wake the Dog up in the trunk
1	Wake	wake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Dog |  | the trunk |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Find the hen in the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t4:o3:1
# text = Find the hen in the barn
1	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | the hen |  | the barn |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Climb up the old oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t4:o4:1
# text = Climb up the old oak
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the old oak |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location oak=Theme |

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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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