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title: Which term in the tale signifies a person who supplicates for assist… — Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Sheph… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which term in the tale signifies a person who supplicates for assistance with humility? Exam question 4 of lesson 405 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pulls a thorn from a Lion's paw, and the Lion later spares him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pull…

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Which term in the tale signifies a person who supplicates for assistance with humility?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** term, person · **What happens:** signify, supplicate · **To what, where:** person

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 405 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pulls a thorn from a Lion's paw, and the Lion later spares him» 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/405-pg21-part26/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:405-pg21-part26:e4:1
# text = Which term in the tale signifies a person who supplicates for assistance with humility?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	supplicates	supplicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | present | which term in the tale | a person |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot person=Theme |
| 2 | **supplicate** | present | a person |  |  |  |  | for assistance with humility | vn beg-58.2-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for assistance=Topic |

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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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Pleader

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:405-pg21-part26:e4:o1:1
# text = Pleader
1	Pleader	Pleader	PROPN	NNP	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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Suppliant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:405-pg21-part26:e4:o2:1
# text = Suppliant
1	Suppliant	suppliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Beggar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:405-pg21-part26:e4:o3:1
# text = Beggar
1	Beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mendicant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:405-pg21-part26:e4:o4:1
# text = Mendicant
1	Mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	NN	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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