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title: Which quality does the Bramble attribute to poverty, in contrast to… — Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which quality does the Bramble attribute to poverty, in contrast to the Fir's boast of usefulness? Exam question 2 of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

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Which quality does the Bramble attribute to poverty, in contrast to the Fir's boast of usefulness?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality, usefulness · **What happens:** do, boast · **To what, where:** Bramble attribute

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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/136-pg11339-part6/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:e2:1
# text = Which quality does the Bramble attribute to poverty, in contrast to the Fir's boast of usefulness?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Fir	Fir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	usefulness	usefulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which quality | the Bramble attribute |  |  |  | to poverty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality |
| 2 | **boast** |  | usefulness |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Freedom from care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:e2:o1:1
# text = Freedom from care
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Freedom from pride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:e2:o2:1
# text = Freedom from pride
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Freedom from all care and from the burden of owning fine things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:e2:o3:1
# text = Freedom from all care and from the burden of owning fine things
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | gerund | the burden *not said here* | fine things |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Freedom from all care, since the poor have nothing to lose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:136-pg11339-part6:e2:o4:1
# text = Freedom from all care, since the poor have nothing to lose
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Freedom from all care | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive | Freedom from all care *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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