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title: Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove o… — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove over the woods and fields? Exam question 2 of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a…

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Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove over the woods and fields?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** assume, pursue · **To what, where:** order, dove, woods

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1199 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Hill-Man: Hans becomes a ring, the princess is walled up, and the hill-man dies under a stone» 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/1199-pg3027-part65/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:e2:1
# text = Which creature did the hill-man assume in order to pursue the dove over the woods and fields?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assume** | past · do-support | which creature |  |  | order |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* | the dove |  | the woods and fields |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dove=Theme over wood=Trajectory |

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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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Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:e2:o1:1
# text = Crow
1	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	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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A falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:e2:o2:1
# text = A falcon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falcon	falcon	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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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:e2:o3:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	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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A hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1199-pg3027-part65:e2:o4:1
# text = A hawk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawk	hawk	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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