--- title: Bro, what's the fox doing when the lion roars? — Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, what's the fox doing when the lion roars? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/770-pg2591-part46/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/770-pg2591-part46/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick… Bro, what's the fox doing when the lion roars? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, fox · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** fox, lion roars This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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/770-pg2591-part46/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t12:1 # text = Bro, what's the fox doing when the lion roars? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 roars roar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bro and the fox | the fox | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the fox *not said here* | the lion roars | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Eventuality | 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} Telling the lion to stop roaring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t12:o1:1 # text = Telling the lion to stop roaring 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | the lion | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **roar** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Eating the horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t12:o2:1 # text = Eating the horse 1 Eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | the horse | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Telling the lion to run ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t12:o3:1 # text = Telling the lion to run 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | the lion | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **run** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Saying Jip Jip to the horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t12:o4:1 # text = Saying Jip Jip to the horse 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 Jip Jip PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Jip Jip PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | Jip Jip | the horse | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jip=Topic to horse=Recipient | **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. 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