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title: What did the unknown huntsman do upon setting out for the forest? — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the unknown huntsman do upon setting out for the forest? Exam question 4 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 each 
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

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What did the unknown huntsman do upon setting out for the forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** unknown huntsman · **What happens:** do, set out

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e4:1
# text = What did the unknown huntsman do upon setting out for the forest?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | the unknown huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **set out** | gerund | the unknown huntsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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rode into the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e4:o1:1
# text = rode into the trees
1	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past |  |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into tree=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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set off on foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e4:o2:1
# text = set off on foot
1	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | foot |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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went with his dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e4:o3:1
# text = went with his dog
1	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with his dog | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dog=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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took his dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:e4:o4:1
# text = took his dog
1	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  |  | his dog |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |

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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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