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description: What reason did Gudu offer for Isuro's abstention from food at the well? Exam question 4 of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, par…

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What reason did Gudu offer for Isuro's abstention from food at the well?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** reason · **What happens:** offer · **To what, where:** food

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1139 «Indian Fairy Tales, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, part 1: Gudu cheats Isuro of food on the road» 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/1139-pg3027-part5/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:e4:1
# text = What reason did Gudu offer for Isuro's abstention from food at the well?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Isuro	Isuro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	abstention	abstention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | reason |  |  | food |  | for Isuro's abstention *goal*; at the well | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Theme for abstention=Goal |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the custom of the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:e4:o1:1
# text = the custom of the village
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the custom of the village forbidding eating before elders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = the custom of the village forbidding eating before elders
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | gerund | the village *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the village *not said here* |  |  |  | before elders |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the custom of the village that guests eat last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = the custom of the village that guests eat last
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | guests | the village |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the rule of the elders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1139-pg3027-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = the rule of the elders
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** |  | the elders |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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