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title: What was the principal grievance of the Ass against his final master? — Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal grievance of the Ass against his final master? Exam question 3 of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

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What was the principal grievance of the Ass against his final master?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** principal grievance

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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/392-pg21-part13/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:e3:1
# text = What was the principal grievance of the Ass against his final master?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grievance	grievance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	against	against	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	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal grievance |  |  |  | of the Ass against his final master | tree rules |

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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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that the tanner would tan his hide after death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:e3:o1:1
# text = that the tanner would tan his hide after death
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tan	tan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tan** | would | the tanner | tanner's hide |  |  | after death |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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that the tanner would tan his hide even after his death and burial

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:e3:o2:1
# text = that the tanner would tan his hide even after his death and burial
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tan	tan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tan** | would | the tanner | tanner's hide |  |  | after tanner's death and burial |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |
| 2 | **die** |  | tanner |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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that the master would sell him to a farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:e3:o3:1
# text = that the master would sell him to a farmer
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | would | the master |  | him *= he* |  |  | to a farmer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to farmer=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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that the tanner would skin his body first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:392-pg21-part13:e3:o4:1
# text = that the tanner would skin his body first
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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