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title: Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yel… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yellow Face? Exam question 2 of lesson 2004 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

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Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yellow Face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** implement · **What happens:** select, offer · **To what, where:** choice

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2004 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding» 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/2004-pg7885-part23/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2004-pg7885-part23:e2:1
# text = Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yellow Face?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
8	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · do-support | which implement |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **offer** | participle | which implement *not said here* | the choice |  |  |  | by Yellow Face | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent choice=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 {#o1}

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the wooden staff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2004-pg7885-part23:e2:o1:1
# text = the wooden staff
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	staff	staff	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 wooden pike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2004-pg7885-part23:e2:o2:1
# text = the wooden pike
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	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 iron pike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2004-pg7885-part23:e2:o3:1
# text = the iron pike
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2004-pg7885-part23:e2:o4:1
# text = the iron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	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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