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description: Which object, when cast by the younger sister, caused an impenetrable forest to arise? Exam question 1 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

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Which object, when cast by the younger sister, caused an impenetrable forest to arise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** cast, cause, arise · **To what, where:** impenetrable forest

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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/1727-pg640-part51/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e1:1
# text = Which object, when cast by the younger sister, caused an impenetrable forest to arise?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the younger sister | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by sister=Destination |
| 2 | **cause** | past | which object | a impenetrable forest |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition forest=Patient |
| 3 | **arise** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | a impenetrable forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e1:o1:1
# text = The cup
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	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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The needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e1:o2:1
# text = The needle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e1:o3:1
# text = The comb
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e1:o4:1
# text = The ash
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ash	ash	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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