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title: Which action of the Cottager concluded the affair? — Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which action of the Cottager concluded the affair? Exam question 3 of lesson 152 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's daughter by giving up his teeth and claws» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

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Which action of the Cottager concluded the affair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** action, Cottager · **What happens:** conclude, act · **To what, where:** affair

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 152 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's daughter by giving up his teeth and claws» 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/152-pg11339-part22/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e3:1
# text = Which action of the Cottager concluded the affair?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cottager	cottager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past | which action of the Cottager | the affair |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Theme |
| 2 | **act** |  | the Cottager |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act 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 {#o1}

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Throwing the Lion into the nearby river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e3:o1:1
# text = Throwing the Lion into the nearby river
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | the Lion |  |  |  | into the nearby river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer lion=Theme into river=Result |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Driving the Lion away with his club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e3:o2:1
# text = Driving the Lion away with his club
1	Driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive away** | gerund |  | the Lion |  |  |  | with Lion's club; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chasing him off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e3:o3:1
# text = Chasing him off
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase off** | gerund |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Locking the Lion inside the cottage door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e3:o4:1
# text = Locking the Lion inside the cottage door
1	Locking	lock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | gerund |  | the Lion |  | the cottage door |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |

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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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