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title: Mate, which beast did the wolf and bear finally want to eat? — Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which beast did the wolf and bear finally want to eat? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…

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Mate, which beast did the wolf and bear finally want to eat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beast · **What happens:** do, want, eat · **To what, where:** wolf

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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/699-pg2435-part39/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t14:1
# text = Mate, which beast did the wolf and bear finally want to eat?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | beast | the wolf and bear |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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 {#o1}

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the sly fox that tricked them both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t14:o1:1
# text = the sly fox that tricked them both
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | the sly fox | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t14:o2:1
# text = the wolf
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t14:o3:1
# text = the fox
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	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 hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:699-pg2435-part39:t14:o4:1
# text = the hare
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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