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title: What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter? — Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter? Exam question 1 of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

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What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** intend, achieve

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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/1019-pg27200-part230/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e1:1
# text = What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	intend	intend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past · do-support | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **achieve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the feast of Easter | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 {#o1}

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To write a book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e1:o1:1
# text = To write a book
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | to-infinitive |  | a book |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To earn his bread by writing poems for the rich lords of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e1:o2:1
# text = To earn his bread by writing poems for the rich lords of the town
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	earn	earn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | to-infinitive |  | his bread |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | gerund |  | poems |  |  |  | for the rich lords of the town | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent poem=Result for lord=Beneficiary |

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

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To become a poet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e1:o3:1
# text = To become a poet
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | to-infinitive |  | a poet |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To live off his poems and become famous in every corner of the kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e1:o4:1
# text = To live off his poems and become famous in every corner of the kingdom
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live off** | to-infinitive |  | his poems |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme poem=Location |
| 2 | **become** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in every corner of the kingdom *result*; famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in corner=Result |

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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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