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title: To what animal did the pursuing creature ultimately prove to belong? — Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wol… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what animal did the pursuing creature ultimately prove to belong? Exam question 2 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
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# Exam question 2 · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

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To what animal did the pursuing creature ultimately prove to belong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal, pursuing creature · **What happens:** do, pursue, prove, belong · **To what, where:** pursuing creature

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e2:1
# text = To what animal did the pursuing creature ultimately prove to belong?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	animal	animal	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	7	det	_	_
6	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	prove	prove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | animal | the pursuing creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pursue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prove** | present | the pursuing creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **belong** | to-infinitive | the pursuing creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = Wolf
1	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = A dog
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	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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A hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = A hare
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	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 wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = A wolf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	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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