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title: Who first informed Tom of the wolf that plagued the walls? — Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who first informed Tom of the wolf that plagued the walls? Exam question 2 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 2 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

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Who first informed Tom of the wolf that plagued the walls?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolf · **What happens:** inform, plague · **To what, where:** Tom, walls

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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/2021-pg7885-part40/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e2:1
# text = Who first informed Tom of the wolf that plagued the walls?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	plagued	plague	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past |  |  | Tom of the wolf |  |  | first *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient |
| 2 | **plague** | past | the wolf | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wall=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Redhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e2:o1:1
# text = Redhead
1	Redhead	redhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e2:o2:1
# text = Tom
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	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 giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e2:o3:1
# text = The giant
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e2:o4:1
# text = The guard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	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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