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title: To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure? Exam question 1 of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** loss · **What happens:** do, bury, treasure · **To what, where:** Miser attribute

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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/373-pg19994-part12/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:e1:1
# text = To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Miser	Miser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Miser attribute |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **treasure** |  | loss |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To a thief who had stolen his gold from the buried chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:e1:o1:1
# text = To a thief who had stolen his gold from the buried chest
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past · perfect | a thief | his gold |  | the buried chest |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from chest=Source |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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To the theft of his gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:e1:o2:1
# text = To the theft of his gold
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To a fire in the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:e1:o3:1
# text = To a fire in the barn
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To a flood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:e1:o4:1
# text = To a flood
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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