--- title: What did the Lion fail to obtain after his long pursuit? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the Lion fail to obtain after his long pursuit? Exam question 4 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 pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/394-pg21-part15/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 Cat and the Mice,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/394-pg21-part15/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs… What did the Lion fail to obtain after his long pursuit? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** his · **What happens:** do, obtain, pursue · **To what, where:** Lion fail This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e4:1 # text = What did the Lion fail to obtain after his long pursuit? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fail fail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the Lion fail | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality | | 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | | the Lion fail *not said here* | | | after his long pursuit | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **pursue** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} the Ox ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e4:o1:1 # text = the Ox 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the swift Hart that ran through the wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e4:o2:1 # text = the swift Hart that ran through the wood 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 swift swift NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Hart Hart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the swift | | | the wood | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the Hart ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e4:o3:1 # text = the Hart 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hart Hart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} a Doe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e4:o4:1 # text = a Doe 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Doe doe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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