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title: Which quality did the Fox claim to possess in greater measure? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which quality did the Fox claim to possess in greater measure? Exam question 3 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

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Which quality did the Fox claim to possess in greater measure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality · **What happens:** do, possess · **To what, where:** Fox claim, greater measure

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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/394-pg21-part15/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e3:1
# text = Which quality did the Fox claim to possess in greater measure?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which quality | the Fox claim |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive | which quality *not said here* | the Fox claim *not said here* |  | greater measure |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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beauty of face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e3:o1:1
# text = beauty of face
1	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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wit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e3:o2:1
# text = wit
1	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	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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charm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e3:o3:1
# text = charm
1	charm	charm	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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beauty of mind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e3:o4:1
# text = beauty of mind
1	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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