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title: Identify the dog that held each captured animal fast, as stated in t… — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the dog that held each captured animal fast, as stated in the narrative. Exam question 2 of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» of the books course of Mova's primary 
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# Exam question 2 · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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Identify the dog that held each captured animal fast, as stated in the narrative.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** identify, hold, capture, state · **To what, where:** dog, captured animal, narrative

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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/1104-pg29672-part10/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e2:1
# text = Identify the dog that held each captured animal fast, as stated in the narrative.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the dog | each captured animal |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **state** *speech: other* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | the narrative |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bogdan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e2:o1:1
# text = Bogdan
1	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	NNP	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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Ved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e2:o2:1
# text = Ved
1	Ved	Ved	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nedviga, the swift grey hound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e2:o3:1
# text = Nedviga, the swift grey hound
1	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nedviga

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e2:o4:1
# text = Nedviga
1	Nedviga	Nedviga	PROPN	NNP	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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