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title: Which action were the huntsmen sent into the forest unable to perform? — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which action were the huntsmen sent into the forest unable to perform? Exam question 1 of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

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Which action were the huntsmen sent into the forest unable to perform?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** huntsmen · **What happens:** be, perform · **To what, where:** forest

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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/784-pg2591-part60/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e1:1
# text = Which action were the huntsmen sent into the forest unable to perform?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the huntsmen |  |  | the forest |  | which action *obl:unmarked*; send, unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | the huntsmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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return from the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e1:o1:1
# text = return from the forest
1	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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return from the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e1:o2:1
# text = return from the woods
1	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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leave the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e1:o3:1
# text = leave the forest
1	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bring the wild man back alive from the depths of the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e1:o4:1
# text = bring the wild man back alive from the depths of the trees
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the wild man |  | the depths of the trees |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme from depth=Initial\_Location |

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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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