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description: What was the eventual outcome of the contest conducted between the two competitors? Exam question 2 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 the q
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

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What was the eventual outcome of the contest conducted between the two competitors?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, conduct · **To what, where:** eventual outcome, contest, two competitors

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e2:1
# text = What was the eventual outcome of the contest conducted between the two competitors?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	competitors	competitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the eventual outcome |  |  |  | of the contest | tree rules |
| 2 | **conduct** | participle |  | the contest *not said here* |  | the two competitors |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between competitor=Destination |

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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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The Hare won

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = The Hare won
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | the Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Tortoise was declared the winner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = The Tortoise was declared the winner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme winner=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Tortoise was named the victor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = The Tortoise was named the victor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme victor=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Hare was declared the winner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:143-pg11339-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = The Hare was declared the winner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the Hare |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme winner=Attribute |

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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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