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title: Of what material was the second little pig's dwelling constructed? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what material was the second little pig's dwelling constructed? Exam question 1 of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

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Of what material was the second little pig's dwelling constructed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** second little pig · **What happens:** dwell, construct

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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/1952-pg7439-part11/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e1:1
# text = Of what material was the second little pig's dwelling constructed?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obl	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past · progressive | the second little pig |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **construct** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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furze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e1:o1:1
# text = furze
1	furze	furze	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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oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e1:o2:1
# text = oak
1	oak	oak	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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thatch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e1:o3:1
# text = thatch
1	thatch	thatch	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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ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e1:o4:1
# text = ash
1	ash	ash	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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