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title: Which creature was appointed to adjudicate the contest between the T… — Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature was appointed to adjudicate the contest between the Tortoise and the Hare? Exam question 1 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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Which creature was appointed to adjudicate the contest between the Tortoise and the Hare?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** appoint, adjudicate · **To what, where:** creature, contest

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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/143-pg11339-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e1:1
# text = Which creature was appointed to adjudicate the contest between the Tortoise and the Hare?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	adjudicate	adjudicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | which creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **adjudicate** | to-infinitive |  | the contest |  |  |  | between the Tortoise and the Hare | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e1:o1:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = The Wolf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	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:143-pg11339-part13:e1: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 Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = The Crow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	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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