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title: By what means did the wolf become affixed to the ox? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the wolf become affixed to the ox? Exam question 3 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 pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Straw-Stuffed Ox: the old couple t…

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By what means did the wolf become affixed to the ox?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** mean, do, become, affix

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e3:1
# text = By what means did the wolf become affixed to the ox?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	affixed	affix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | the wolf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **affix** | participle | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ox | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to ox=Co-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 {#o1}

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by chewing the rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e3:o1:1
# text = by chewing the rope
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | gerund |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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by pulling hard on the sticky tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e3:o2:1
# text = by pulling hard on the sticky tar
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the sticky tar; hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on tar=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by pulling the tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e3:o3:1
# text = by pulling the tar
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund |  | the tar |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tar=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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by tugging at the tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1114-pg29672-part20:e3:o4:1
# text = by tugging at the tar
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tugging	tug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tug** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the tar | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tar=Theme |

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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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