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title: What manner of creature does the husband become when the candle is l… — More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow… · tree and pragmatics
description: What manner of creature does the husband become when the candle is lit? Exam question 4 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 4 · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

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What manner of creature does the husband become when the candle is lit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** manner · **What happens:** become, lit · **To what, where:** candle

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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/240-pg14241-part7/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e4:1
# text = What manner of creature does the husband become when the candle is lit?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · do-support | what manner of creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lit** | present · passive |  | the candle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e4:o1:1
# text = a hare
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	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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a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e4:o2:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e4:o3:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	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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a great owl with spread wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:e4:o4:1
# text = a great owl with spread wings
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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