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description: Which description most accurately characterises the neighbour's motive for requesting the loan of the dog? Exam question 3 of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» of the books course of Mova's primary 
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# Exam question 3 · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

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Which description most accurately characterises the neighbour's motive for requesting the loan of the dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** description, motive · **What happens:** characteris, request, loan · **To what, where:** motive, loan, dog

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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/1777-pg641-part28/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e3:1
# text = Which description most accurately characterises the neighbour's motive for requesting the loan of the dog?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	motive	motive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	requesting	request	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | which description | the neighbour's motive |  |  |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** | gerund | the neighbour's motive *not said here* | the loan of the dog |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent loan=Recipient |
| 3 | **loan** |  |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Fear of the old woman's anger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e3:o1:1
# text = Fear of the old woman's anger
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** |  |  | the old woman's anger |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **anger** |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Jealousy of the couple's fine house and garden fortune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e3:o2:1
# text = Jealousy of the couple's fine house and garden fortune
1	Jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Envy of the couple's good fortune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e3:o3:1
# text = Envy of the couple's good fortune
1	Envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **envy** |  |  | the couple's good fortune |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Envy of the couple's good fortune and wealth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e3:o4:1
# text = Envy of the couple's good fortune and wealth
1	Envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **envy** |  |  | the couple's good fortune and wealth |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=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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