--- title: What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo… · tree and pragmatics description: What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by his original route? Exam question 3 of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/749-pg2591-part25/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w… What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by his original route? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** circumstance · **What happens:** prevent, depart, dwell · **To what, where:** wolf This is exam question 3 of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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/749-pg2591-part25/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:e3:1 # text = What circumstance prevented the wolf from departing the dwelling by his original route? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 circumstance circumstance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 prevented prevent 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 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 departing depart VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dwelling dwell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prevent** | past | what circumstance | the wolf | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wolf=Theme | | 2 | **depart** | gerund | what circumstance *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dwell** | gerund | what circumstance *not said here* | | | | | by circumstance's original route | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by route=Location | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Excess of food consumed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:e3:o1:1 # text = Excess of food consumed 1 Excess excess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 consumed consume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | participle | | Excess of food *not said here* | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Excess of weight gained ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:e3:o2:1 # text = Excess of weight gained 1 Excess excess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 gained gain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gain** | participle | | Excess of weight *not said here* | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Too heavy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:e3:o3:1 # text = Too heavy 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Too much ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:e3:o4:1 # text = Too much 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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