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title: Which substance did Catherine employ to lubricate the ruts? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Cat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance did Catherine employ to lubricate the ruts? Exam question 2 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Cat…

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Which substance did Catherine employ to lubricate the ruts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** employ, lubricate · **To what, where:** ruts

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» 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/107-pg11027-part10/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e2:1
# text = Which substance did Catherine employ to lubricate the ruts?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	lubricate	lubricate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ruts	rut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · do-support | which substance |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **lubricate** | to-infinitive | which substance *not said here* | the ruts |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rut=Destination |

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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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goose fat from the kitchen pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e2:o1:1
# text = goose fat from the kitchen pot
1	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e2:o2:1
# text = oil
1	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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butter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e2:o3:1
# text = butter
1	butter	butter	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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fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e2:o4:1
# text = fat
1	fat	fat	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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