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title: Which faculty did the ogre claim to possess? — Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which faculty did the ogre claim to possess? Exam question 3 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

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Which faculty did the ogre claim to possess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** faculty · **What happens:** do, possess · **To what, where:** ogre claim

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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/1447-pg503-part34/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e3:1
# text = Which faculty did the ogre claim to possess?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	faculty	faculty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which faculty | the ogre claim |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive | which faculty *not said here* | the ogre claim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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the power to change into other creatures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e3:o1:1
# text = the power to change into other creatures
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into other creatures *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into creature=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the power to turn into animals of any kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e3:o2:1
# text = the power to turn into animals of any kind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | to-infinitive | the power |  |  |  |  | into animals of any kind *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into animal=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the power to change into other creatures and to breathe fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e3:o3:1
# text = the power to change into other creatures and to breathe fire
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | to-infinitive | the power |  |  |  |  | into other creatures *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into creature=Result |
| 2 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the power to shift into animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e3:o4:1
# text = the power to shift into animals
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	shift	shift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shift** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into animals | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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