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title: Specify the animal whose flesh the wolf procured in order to attract… — pg641, the prince and his beasts, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the animal whose flesh the wolf procured in order to attract the crow. Exam question 4 of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 4 · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…

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Specify the animal whose flesh the wolf procured in order to attract the crow.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, flesh · **What happens:** specify, procure, attract · **To what, where:** animal, order, crow

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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/1757-pg641-part8/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:e4:1
# text = Specify the animal whose flesh the wolf procured in order to attract the crow.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the animal |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **procure** | past | flesh |  |  | order |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | flesh *not said here* | the crow |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Patient |

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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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a deer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:e4:o1:1
# text = a deer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deer	deer	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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eel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:e4:o2:1
# text = eel
1	eel	eel	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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an ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:e4:o3:1
# text = an ox
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ox	ox	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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rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1757-pg641-part8:e4:o4:1
# text = rat
1	rat	rat	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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