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title: What quality did the Ass display when he feigned lameness to trick t… — Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quality did the Ass display when he feigned lameness to trick the Wolf? Exam question 2 of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

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What quality did the Ass display when he feigned lameness to trick the Wolf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality · **What happens:** do, feign, trick · **To what, where:** Ass display, lameness, Wolf

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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/399-pg21-part20/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e2:1
# text = What quality did the Ass display when he feigned lameness to trick the Wolf?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
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	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feigned	feign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	lameness	lameness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | quality | the Ass display |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feign** | past | quality | lameness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trick** | to-infinitive | quality *not said here* | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |

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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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Fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e2:o1:1
# text = Fear
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Cunning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e2:o2:1
# text = Cunning
1	Cunning	cunning	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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Clever deceit and quick wit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e2:o3:1
# text = Clever deceit and quick wit
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e2:o4:1
# text = Joy
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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