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title: By what means did the animals cause the robbers to abandon the house? — Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the ro… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the animals cause the robbers to abandon the house? Exam question 2 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 question and of each opt
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

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By what means did the animals cause the robbers to abandon the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** mean, do, cause, abandon · **To what, where:** robbers, house

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e2:1
# text = By what means did the animals cause the robbers to abandon the house?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	abandon	abandon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | present | the animals | the robbers |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition robber=Patient |
| 4 | **abandon** | to-infinitive | the animals *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme house=Source |

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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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By a huge noisy concert performed loudly right at the open window of the house all night long

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e2:o1:1
# text = By a huge noisy concert performed loudly right at the open window of the house all night long
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | participle |  | a huge noisy concert *not said here* |  | the open window of the house | night | loudly *property* | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By a noisy concert performed at the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e2:o2:1
# text = By a noisy concert performed at the window
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | participle |  | a noisy concert *not said here* |  | the window |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By a loud bang on the window glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e2:o3:1
# text = By a loud bang on the window glass
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By a loud song at the front door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:729-pg2591-part5:e2:o4:1
# text = By a loud song at the front door
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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