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title: Which of the following objects did the dog's dream instruct the old… — pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following objects did the dog's dream instruct the old man to fashion from the felled fig-tree? Exam question 1 of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» of the books course of Mova's primar
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# Exam question 1 · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

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Which of the following objects did the dog's dream instruct the old man to fashion from the felled fig-tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** follow, instruct, fashion, fell, dream · **To what, where:** objects, old man, felled fig tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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/1777-pg641-part28/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e1:1
# text = Which of the following objects did the dog's dream instruct the old man to fashion from the felled fig-tree?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
5	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	instruct	instruct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fashion	fashion	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	felled	fell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
20	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | objects |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present |  | the old man |  |  |  | of the dog's dream | tree rules |
| 3 | **fashion** | to-infinitive |  | the old man *not said here* |  | the felled fig tree |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from tree=Material |
| 4 | **fell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dream** |  | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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A pestle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e1:o1:1
# text = A pestle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pestle	pestle	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 wooden mortar and matching pestle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e1:o2:1
# text = A wooden mortar and matching pestle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	matching	matching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A large stone mortar for grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e1:o3:1
# text = A large stone mortar for grain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A mortar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:e1:o4:1
# text = A mortar
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mortar	mortar	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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