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title: Which animal was the tallest member of the company and first to look… — Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the ro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal was the tallest member of the company and first to look through the window? Exam question 1 of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

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Which animal was the tallest member of the company and first to look through the window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** tallest member

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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/729-pg2591-part5/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e1:1
# text = Which animal was the tallest member of the company and first to look through the window?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which animal | the tallest member |  |  |  | of the company | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | which animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the window; first *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The ass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e1:o1:1
# text = The ass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ass	ass	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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Cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e1:o2:1
# text = Cock
1	Cock	cock	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 cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e1:o3:1
# text = The cock
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cock	cock	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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Cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e1:o4:1
# text = Cat
1	Cat	cat	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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