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description: What quality is the Dog said to bestow upon the final portion of human life? Exam question 3 of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

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What quality is the Dog said to bestow upon the final portion of human life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality, Dog · **What happens:** be, say, bestow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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/398-pg21-part19/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e3:1
# text = What quality is the Dog said to bestow upon the final portion of human life?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | quality |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bestow** | to-infinitive | the Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the final portion of human life | 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 {#o1}

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Snappishness, irritability and grumpy moods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e3:o1:1
# text = Snappishness, irritability and grumpy moods
1	Snappishness	snappishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	irritability	irritability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bitter snappishness that lasts into the grave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e3:o2:1
# text = A bitter snappishness that lasts into the grave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snappishness	snappishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a bitter snappishness |  |  | the grave |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Harsh temper and fury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e3:o3:1
# text = Harsh temper and fury
1	Harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Snappishness and irritability

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:e3:o4:1
# text = Snappishness and irritability
1	Snappishness	snappishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	irritability	irritability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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