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title: Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees? — Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees? Exam question 2 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 dependency tr
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

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Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** other bees · **What happens:** deprive · **To what, where:** creature

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e2:1
# text = Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deprive** | past · passive | the other bees | which creature |  |  |  | of creature's wings | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Source of wing=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The queen-bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e2:o1:1
# text = The queen-bee
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The worker bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e2:o2:1
# text = The worker bee
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The drone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e2:o3:1
# text = The drone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drone	drone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A worker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:e2:o4:1
# text = A worker
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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