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title: What characteristic of the Lion was exploited in the tale? — Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a li… · tree and pragmatics
description: What characteristic of the Lion was exploited in the tale? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

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What characteristic of the Lion was exploited in the tale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** exploit · **To what, where:** characteristic, tale

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e4:1
# text = What characteristic of the Lion was exploited in the tale?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	exploited	exploit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exploit** | past · passive |  | what characteristic of the Lion |  | the tale |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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Excessive hot temper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e4:o1:1
# text = Excessive hot temper
1	Excessive	Excessive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blind trust in men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e4:o2:1
# text = Blind trust in men
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Blind infatuation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e4:o3:1
# text = Blind infatuation
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	infatuation	infatuation	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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Blind infatuation with the father's cunning daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:152-pg11339-part22:e4:o4:1
# text = Blind infatuation with the father's cunning daughter
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	infatuation	infatuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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