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title: What material did the elderly woman employ for spinning upon arrivin… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed… · tree and pragmatics
description: What material did the elderly woman employ for spinning upon arriving at the mound? Exam question 2 of lesson 1114 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple trap the bear, wolf, fox and hare and grow rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…

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What material did the elderly woman employ for spinning upon arriving at the mound?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material · **What happens:** do, spin, arrive · **To what, where:** elderly woman employ, mound

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1114 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple trap the bear, wolf, fox and hare and grow 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/1114-pg29672-part20/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e2:1
# text = What material did the elderly woman employ for spinning upon arriving at the mound?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	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 | material | the elderly woman employ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund | material *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | gerund | material *not said here* |  |  | the mound |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the raw flax from her basket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e2:o1:1
# text = the raw flax from her basket
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e2:o2:1
# text = hay
1	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	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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tow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e2:o3:1
# text = tow
1	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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flax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e2:o4:1
# text = flax
1	flax	flax	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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