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description: Which instrument did the old woman employ to render the travellers immobile? Exam question 1 of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 1 · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

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Which instrument did the old woman employ to render the travellers immobile?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** instrument · **What happens:** employ, render · **To what, where:** travellers immobile

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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/1758-pg641-part9/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:e1:1
# text = Which instrument did the old woman employ to render the travellers immobile?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	immobile	immobile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · do-support | which instrument |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **render** | to-infinitive | which instrument *not said here* | the travellers immobile |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immobile=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:e1:o1:1
# text = a rod
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	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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a staff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:e1:o2:1
# text = a staff
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	staff	staff	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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cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:e1:o3:1
# text = cup
1	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 {#o4}

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a club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1758-pg641-part9:e1:o4:1
# text = a club
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	club	club	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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