--- title: According to the closing moral, what does a fool's speech reveal? — Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's… · tree and pragmatics description: According to the closing moral, what does a fool's speech reveal? Exam question 4 of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/379-pg19994-part18/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/379-pg19994-part18/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g… According to the closing moral, what does a fool's speech reveal? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** closing moral · **What happens:** accord, close, do · **To what, where:** speech reveal This is exam question 4 of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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/379-pg19994-part18/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:e4:1 # text = According to the closing moral, what does a fool's speech reveal? 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 closing close VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 moral moral NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 8 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 reveal reveal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **close** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **do** | present | the closing moral | a fool's speech reveal | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reveal=Eventuality | 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} his spirit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:e4:o1:1 # text = his spirit 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} his real self ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:e4:o2:1 # text = his real self 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} his true nature ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:e4:o3:1 # text = his true nature 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} his fate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:379-pg19994-part18:e4:o4:1 # text = his fate 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fate** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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