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title: Which weapon did the protagonist employ to strike the cushions and t… — Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which weapon did the protagonist employ to strike the cushions and the apple-tree? Exam question 1 of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 1 · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

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Which weapon did the protagonist employ to strike the cushions and the apple-tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** weapon · **What happens:** do, strike · **To what, where:** protagonist employ, cushions

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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/424-pg22373-part16/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:e1:1
# text = Which weapon did the protagonist employ to strike the cushions and the apple-tree?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which weapon | the protagonist employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **strike** | to-infinitive | which weapon *not said here* | the cushions and the apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=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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bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:e1:o1:1
# text = bow
1	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:e1:o2:1
# text = a sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:e1:o3:1
# text = axe
1	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a mace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:424-pg22373-part16:e1:o4:1
# text = a mace
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mace	mace	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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