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title: Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide. — Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide. Exam question 3 of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

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Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, buyer · **What happens:** explain, acquire · **To what, where:** purpose, hide

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» 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/1409-pg500-part22/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:e3:1
# text = Explain the purpose for which the buyer acquires the animal's hide.
1	Explain	explain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	acquires	acquire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the purpose |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic |
| 2 | **acquire** | present | the buyer | the animal's hide |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent hide=Theme for which=Asset |

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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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to make shoes and bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:e3:o1:1
# text = to make shoes and bags
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | shoes and bags |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product |

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

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to fashion a drumhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:e3:o2:1
# text = to fashion a drumhead
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fashion	fashion	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fashion** | to-infinitive |  | a drumhead |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drumhead=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to make a drum head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:e3:o3:1
# text = to make a drum head
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a drum head |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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to fashion a drumhead for the band

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:e3:o4:1
# text = to fashion a drumhead for the band
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fashion	fashion	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	drumhead	drumhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fashion** | to-infinitive |  | a drumhead |  |  |  | for the band | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drumhead=Product for band=Beneficiary |

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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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