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description: With reference to the passage, identify the object which the old nurse instructed Petru to strike against the pillars. Exam question 1 of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowe
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# Exam question 1 · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

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With reference to the passage, identify the object which the old nurse instructed Petru to strike against the pillars.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, old nurse · **What happens:** identify, instruct, strike · **To what, where:** object, pillars

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» 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/1779-pg641-part30/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:e1:1
# text = With reference to the passage, identify the object which the old nurse instructed Petru to strike against the pillars.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the object |  |  |  | with reference to the passage | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | the old nurse | the object |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike** | to-infinitive | the old nurse *not said here* |  |  | the pillars |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pillar=Location |

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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 piece of old leather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:e1:o1:1
# text = the piece of old leather
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the scrap of the oldest black reins from the pile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:e1:o2:1
# text = the scrap of the oldest black reins from the pile
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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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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the scrap of old reins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:e1:o3:1
# text = the scrap of old reins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bit of old harness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:e1:o4:1
# text = a bit of old harness
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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