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description: Upon what object did the youth first apply mud in order to mislead the shepherd? Exam question 1 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Upon what object did the youth first apply mud in order to mislead the shepherd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object, youth · **What happens:** do, apply, mislead · **To what, where:** mud, shepherd

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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/1278-pg3454-part3/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e1:1
# text = Upon what object did the youth first apply mud in order to mislead the shepherd?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	apply	apply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	fixed	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	mislead	mislead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** | present | the youth | mud |  |  |  | first *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme |
| 3 | **mislead** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=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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a sock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e1:o1:1
# text = a sock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sock	sock	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 boot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e1:o2:1
# text = a boot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e1:o3:1
# text = a shoe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e1:o4:1
# text = a hat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	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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