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title: Which object did Walter cast aside during his precipitate flight? — Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wol… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did Walter cast aside during his precipitate flight? Exam question 1 of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 1 · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

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Which object did Walter cast aside during his precipitate flight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** cast

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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/1288-pg3454-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e1:1
# text = Which object did Walter cast aside during his precipitate flight?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	precipitate	precipitate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past · do-support | which object |  |  |  | during Walter's precipitate flight | aside *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e1:o1:1
# text = His drum
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	drum	drum	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 stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = A stick
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	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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His satchel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e1:o3:1
# text = His satchel
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	satchel	satchel	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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Hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = Hat
1	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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