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title: What distance is employed in the text to describe the separation bet… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What distance is employed in the text to describe the separation between the village and the grandmother's dwelling? Exam question 2 of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, 
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

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What distance is employed in the text to describe the separation between the village and the grandmother's dwelling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** employ, describe · **To what, where:** text, separation

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» 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/746-pg2591-part22/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e2:1
# text = What distance is employed in the text to describe the separation between the village and the grandmother's dwelling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | present · passive |  |  |  | the text |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | the separation |  |  |  | between the village and the grandmother's dwelling | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent separation=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 {#o1}

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half a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e2:o1:1
# text = half a day
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	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 mile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e2:o2:1
# text = a mile
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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half a league

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e2:o3:1
# text = half a league
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	league	league	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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half a league beyond the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e2:o4:1
# text = half a league beyond the mill
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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