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description: Which item did Little Thumb obtain from the Ogre's wife through a falsehood? Exam question 1 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 1 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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Which item did Little Thumb obtain from the Ogre's wife through a falsehood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** item, Little Thumb · **What happens:** do, obtain · **To what, where:** falsehood

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e1:1
# text = Which item did Little Thumb obtain from the Ogre's wife through a falsehood?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	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 | which item |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | present | Little Thumb |  |  | a falsehood |  | from the Ogre's wife | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from wife=Source |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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All the gold and silver she possessed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e1:o1:1
# text = All the gold and silver she possessed
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | past | all gold and silver |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All the gold and silver she possessed, hidden under the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e1:o2:1
# text = All the gold and silver she possessed, hidden under the bed
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | past | all gold and silver |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | all gold and silver *not said here* |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All the gold and jewels she kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e1:o3:1
# text = All the gold and jewels she kept
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | she | all gold and jewels |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e1:o4:1
# text = Her coins
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coin** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=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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