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title: What did the wolf request upon arriving at the third dwelling? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the wolf request upon arriving at the third dwelling? Exam question 2 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 questi
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# Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

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What did the wolf request upon arriving at the third dwelling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, arrive · **To what, where:** wolf request, third dwelling

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e2:1
# text = What did the wolf request upon arriving at the third dwelling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the wolf request |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 2 | **arrive** | gerund |  |  |  | the third dwelling |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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a quick look in the cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e2:o1:1
# text = a quick look in the cottage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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admittance to the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e2:o2:1
# text = admittance to the house
1	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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permission to come in and see the sleeping pigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e2:o3:1
# text = permission to come in and see the sleeping pigs
1	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | the sleeping pigs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a warm meal in the kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1952-pg7439-part11:e2:o4:1
# text = a warm meal in the kitchen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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