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title: What lesson did the Horse learn when reduced to labour after his inj… — Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: What lesson did the Horse learn when reduced to labour after his injury? Exam question 4 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 pragma
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

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What lesson did the Horse learn when reduced to labour after his injury?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lesson · **What happens:** do, learn, reduce, injure · **To what, where:** Horse, labour

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e4:1
# text = What lesson did the Horse learn when reduced to labour after his injury?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | lesson | the Horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reduce** | participle |  |  |  |  | after lesson's injury | to labour *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer to labour=Goal |
| 4 | **injure** |  | lesson |  |  |  |  |  | nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Labour brings shame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e4:o1:1
# text = Labour brings shame
1	Labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Labour | shame |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shame=Theme |

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

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Pride brings downfall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e4:o2:1
# text = Pride brings downfall
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	downfall	downfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Pride | downfall |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent downfall=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pride brings downfall, so one should always be humble and modest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e4:o3:1
# text = Pride brings downfall, so one should always be humble and modest
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	downfall	downfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Pride | downfall |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent downfall=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | should | one |  |  |  |  | always, humble *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Those who are proud and vain will always meet a hard fall in the end

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:e4:o4:1
# text = Those who are proud and vain will always meet a hard fall in the end
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | future | Those | a hard fall |  |  | in the end | always *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Co-Agent |

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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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