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title: Which device did the Soldier employ to summon the canine attendants? — Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which device did the Soldier employ to summon the canine attendants? Exam question 1 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

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Which device did the Soldier employ to summon the canine attendants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** device · **What happens:** do, summon · **To what, where:** Soldier employ, canine attendants

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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/1738-pg640-part62/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e1:1
# text = Which device did the Soldier employ to summon the canine attendants?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	device	device	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	6	det	_	_
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	canine	canine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which device | the Soldier employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **summon** | to-infinitive | which device *not said here* | the canine attendants |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient |

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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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the tinder-box, struck in succession

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e1:o1:1
# text = the tinder-box, struck in succession
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle |  | the tinder box *not said here* |  | succession |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in succession=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a wooden whistle carved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e1:o2:1
# text = a wooden whistle carved
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | a wooden whistle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a silver whistle blown three times at the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e1:o3:1
# text = a silver whistle blown three times at the gate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | participle |  | a silver whistle *not said here* |  | the gate | time |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a tinder-box struck in succession by the Soldier's hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e1:o4:1
# text = a tinder-box struck in succession by the Soldier's hand
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle |  | a tinder box *not said here* |  | succession |  | by the Soldier's hand | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in succession=Location |

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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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