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title: By which material was the wild man bound before he was conveyed to t… — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics
description: By which material was the wild man bound before he was conveyed to the castle? Exam question 2 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
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

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By which material was the wild man bound before he was conveyed to the castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, bind, convey · **To what, where:** wild man, man, castle

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e2:1
# text = By which material was the wild man bound before he was conveyed to the castle?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the wild man |  |  |  | by which material | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** | participle |  | the wild man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **convey** | past · passive |  | man | the castle |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to castle=Recipient |

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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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fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e2:o1:1
# text = fur
1	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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ropes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e2:o2:1
# text = ropes
1	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e2:o3:1
# text = rope
1	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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cords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e2:o4:1
# text = cords
1	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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