--- title: What object did the runner employ as a pillow while he slept during… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants,… · tree and pragmatics description: What object did the runner employ as a pillow while he slept during the race? Exam question 2 of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1700-pg640-part24/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1700-pg640-part24/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water… What object did the runner employ as a pillow while he slept during the race? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, sleep · **To what, where:** runner employ This is exam question 2 of lesson 1700 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Servants, part 24: the water race, the sleeping runner, and the King's iron room» 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/1700-pg640-part24/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:e2:1 # text = What object did the runner employ as a pillow while he slept during the race? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 employ employ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pillow pillow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 during during ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | object | the runner employ | | | | as a pillow | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | past | object | | | | during the race | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} The empty jug he filled at the stream ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:e2:o1:1 # text = The empty jug he filled at the stream 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 jug jug NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | the empty jug | | | the stream | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A horse's skull ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:e2:o2:1 # text = A horse's skull 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:e2:o3:1 # text = A stone 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A log ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1700-pg640-part24:e2:o4:1 # text = A log 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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