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title: Which substance did the thief place in one of the two flasks? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance did the thief place in one of the two flasks? Exam question 3 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Which substance did the thief place in one of the two flasks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** thief place

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e3:1
# text = Which substance did the thief place in one of the two flasks?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	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	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	flasks	flask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which substance | the thief place |  |  |  | in one of the two flasks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |

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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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a strong poison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e3:o1:1
# text = a strong poison
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poison	poison	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 strong sleeping drink from the apothecary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e3:o2:1
# text = a strong sleeping drink from the apothecary
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a potion of poppies and brandy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e3:o3:1
# text = a potion of poppies and brandy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a sleeping drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e3:o4:1
# text = a sleeping drink
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	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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