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title: Which domestic animal did Lizina undertake to serve in the course of… — Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which domestic animal did Lizina undertake to serve in the course of the narrative? Exam question 2 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 2 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

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Which domestic animal did Lizina undertake to serve in the course of the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** domestic animal · **What happens:** undertake, serve

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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/719-pg2435-part59/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e2:1
# text = Which domestic animal did Lizina undertake to serve in the course of the narrative?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · do-support | which domestic animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | which domestic animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the course of the narrative | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in course=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e2:o1:1
# text = The cats
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e2:o2:1
# text = Hen
1	Hen	Hen	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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Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e2:o3:1
# text = Dog
1	Dog	dog	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 mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e2:o4:1
# text = The mice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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