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title: the fox and the crane both served food nobody could eat, lol? — Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: the fox and the crane both served food nobody could eat, lol? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

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the fox and the crane both served food nobody could eat, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fox, nobody · **What happens:** serve, eat · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» 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/401-pg21-part22/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:401-pg21-part22:t9:1
# text = the fox and the crane both served food nobody could eat, lol?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | the fox and the crane | food |  |  |  | both *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Attribute |
| 2 | **eat** | could | nobody | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:401-pg21-part22:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | they |  |  | each |  | with dinner | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, they both starved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:401-pg21-part22:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they both starved
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	starved	starve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past | they |  |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner in weird dishes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:401-pg21-part22:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner in weird dishes
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | they |  |  | each |  | with dinner; in weird dishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they shared dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:401-pg21-part22:t9:o4:1
# text = Nah, they shared dinner
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past | they | dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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