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title: State the material of the rod with which the Lady was touched and tr… — Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the material of the rod with which the Lady was touched and transformed. Exam question 3 of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into a fawn» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

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State the material of the rod with which the Lady was touched and transformed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** touch, transform · **To what, where:** Lady

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into a fawn» 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/1049-pg2892-part17/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e3:1
# text = State the material of the rod with which the Lady was touched and transformed.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past · passive |  | the Lady |  |  |  | with the rod | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with which=Instrument |
| 2 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=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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oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e3:o1:1
# text = oak
1	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a bent hazel wand from the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e3:o2:1
# text = a bent hazel wand from the wood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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hazel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e3:o3:1
# text = hazel
1	hazel	hazel	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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ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1049-pg2892-part17:e3:o4:1
# text = ash
1	ash	ash	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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