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title: Which creature first leapt upon the larger ox in the course of the c… — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature first leapt upon the larger ox in the course of the combat? Exam question 2 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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Which creature first leapt upon the larger ox in the course of the combat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** leapt · **To what, where:** course

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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/1732-pg640-part56/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e2:1
# text = Which creature first leapt upon the larger ox in the course of the combat?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	leapt	leapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leapt** | past | which creature |  |  | the course of the combat |  | upon the larger ox; first *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Snati

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e2:o1:1
# text = Snati
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Brown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e2:o2:1
# text = Brown
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Snati the faithful hound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e2:o3:1
# text = Snati the faithful hound
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the big dog Snati

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e2:o4:1
# text = the big dog Snati
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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