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title: Which party is designated to determine the course and the goal? — Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which party is designated to determine the course and the goal? Exam question 2 of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

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Which party is designated to determine the course and the goal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** designate, determine · **To what, where:** party, course

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» 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/384-pg21-part5/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e2:1
# text = Which party is designated to determine the course and the goal?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | present · passive |  | which party |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **determine** | to-infinitive |  | the course and the goal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e2:o1:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The Hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e2:o2:1
# text = The Hare
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e2:o3:1
# text = Bear
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:e2:o4:1
# text = The Fox
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	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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