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title: Mad! What does Walter cut the wolves' ears off with? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad! What does Walter cut the wolves' ears off with? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 13 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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Mad! What does Walter cut the wolves' ears off with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Walter · **What happens:** cut · **To what, where:** ears

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1287-pg3454-part12/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mad!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:1
# text = Mad!
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What does Walter cut the wolves' ears off with?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:2
# text = What does Walter cut the wolves' ears off with?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present · do-support | Walter | the wolves's ears |  |  |  | off *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary ear=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Hunting knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:o1:1
# text = Hunting knife
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | gerund |  | knife |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:o2:1
# text = Sword
1	Sword	sword	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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Clasp knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:o3:1
# text = Clasp knife
1	Clasp	clasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	knife	knife	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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Carving tool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t13:o4:1
# text = Carving tool
1	Carving	carve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | gerund |  | tool |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=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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