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title: Which article did the old troll request from his wife before proceed… — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which article did the old troll request from his wife before proceeding to the river? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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Which article did the old troll request from his wife before proceeding to the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** article · **What happens:** do, proceed · **To what, where:** old troll request

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e4:1
# text = Which article did the old troll request from his wife before proceeding to the river?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	article	article	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	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which article | the old troll request |  |  |  | from article's wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 2 | **proceed** | gerund | which article *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the river | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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 cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e4:o1:1
# text = the cloak
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloak	cloak	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 bright gold piece

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e4:o2:1
# text = the bright gold piece
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e4:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the gold chess-board

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e4:o4:1
# text = the gold chess-board
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	board	board	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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