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title: Upon re-entering the room, which creature first attacked the captain? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon re-entering the room, which creature first attacked the captain? Exam question 1 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

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Upon re-entering the room, which creature first attacked the captain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** re-enter, attack · **To what, where:** room, captain

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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/2002-pg7885-part21/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e1:1
# text = Upon re-entering the room, which creature first attacked the captain?
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	re-entering	re-enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-enter** | gerund |  | the room  which creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | past |  | the captain |  |  |  | first *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Patient |

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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 dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e1:o1:1
# text = the dog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e1:o2:1
# text = the cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	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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the black farm cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e1:o3:1
# text = the black farm cock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cock	cock	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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the big old grey cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e1:o4:1
# text = the big old grey cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cat	cat	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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