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# Exam question 3 · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Upon what ground did the husband decline to disclose the treasure to his spouse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ground · **What happens:** do, disclose · **To what, where:** husband decline, treasure, spouse

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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/1775-pg641-part26/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:e3:1
# text = Upon what ground did the husband decline to disclose the treasure to his spouse?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	disclose	disclose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	spouse	spouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | ground | the husband decline |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disclose** | to-infinitive | ground *not said here* | the treasure | ground's spouse |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic to spouse=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Her inability to keep silence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:e3:o1:1
# text = Her inability to keep silence
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	inability	inability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Her inability | silence |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because she was unable to keep silence about anything she heard from others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:e3:o2:1
# text = Because she was unable to keep silence about anything she heard from others
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | silence |  |  |  | about anything | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about anything=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past | she |  |  | others |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her lack of quiet discretion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:e3:o3:1
# text = Her lack of quiet discretion
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** |  | Her *= she* | quiet discretion |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her complete inability to keep quiet about anything she was told

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:e3:o4:1
# text = Her complete inability to keep quiet about anything she was told
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	inability	inability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Her complete inability |  |  |  |  | about anything; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about anything=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | inability |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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