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title: By what means did the maiden attempt to locate her missing pigs? — Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34:… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the maiden attempt to locate her missing pigs? Exam question 3 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

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By what means did the maiden attempt to locate her missing pigs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** mean, do, locate · **To what, where:** maiden attempt, missing pigs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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/1645-pg5615-part34/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e3:1
# text = By what means did the maiden attempt to locate her missing pigs?
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	locate	locate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the maiden attempt |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality |
| 3 | **locate** | to-infinitive |  | her missing pigs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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she searched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e3:o1:1
# text = she searched
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she shouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e3:o2:1
# text = she shouted
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she waited by the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e3:o3:1
# text = she waited by the gate
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | she |  |  |  |  | by the gate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gate=Location |

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

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she climbed a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e3:o4:1
# text = she climbed a tree
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | she | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |

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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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