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title: Which creature does the wolverine deceive into remaining motionless? — Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature does the wolverine deceive into remaining motionless? Exam question 1 of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 1 · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

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Which creature does the wolverine deceive into remaining motionless?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** deceive, remain

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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/1227-pg3282-part28/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:e1:1
# text = Which creature does the wolverine deceive into remaining motionless?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | present · do-support | which creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | which creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | motionless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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 {#o1}

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the elk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:e1:o1:1
# text = the elk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:e1:o2:1
# text = the fox
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	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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the cub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:e1:o3:1
# text = the cub
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:e1:o4:1
# text = the bear
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	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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