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title: Which consideration restrained the huntsman from discharging his fir… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which consideration restrained the huntsman from discharging his firearm upon the sleeping wolf? Exam question 4 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, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

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Which consideration restrained the huntsman from discharging his firearm upon the sleeping wolf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** consideration · **What happens:** restrain, discharge · **To what, where:** huntsman, firearm

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e4:1
# text = Which consideration restrained the huntsman from discharging his firearm upon the sleeping wolf?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	restrained	restrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	discharging	discharge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	firearm	firearm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restrain** | past | which consideration | the huntsman |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer huntsman=Eventuality |
| 2 | **discharge** | gerund | which consideration *not said here* | consideration's firearm |  |  |  | upon the sleeping wolf | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=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 {#o1}

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the wolf might still be awake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e4:o1:1
# text = the wolf might still be awake
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | the wolf |  |  |  | still | awake *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the chance the grandmother was still alive inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e4:o2:1
# text = the chance the grandmother was still alive inside
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the chance  the grandmother |  |  |  | still | alive, inside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the grandmother might still be alive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e4:o3:1
# text = the grandmother might still be alive
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | the grandmother |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |

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

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the possible survival of the grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:746-pg2591-part22:e4:o4:1
# text = the possible survival of the grandmother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** |  |  | the grandmother |  |  |  |  | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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