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title: How was the stone ultimately recovered from the river? — Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Fal… · tree and pragmatics
description: How was the stone ultimately recovered from the river? Exam question 4 of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

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How was the stone ultimately recovered from the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stone · **What happens:** be, recover · **To what, where:** stone, river

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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/1158-pg3027-part24/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:e4:1
# text = How was the stone ultimately recovered from the river?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recover** | past | the stone |  |  | the river |  | ultimately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source |

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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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By a tunny who released it from his ear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:e4:o1:1
# text = By a tunny who released it from his ear
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tunny	tunny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past | a tunny | tunny |  | his ear |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By a whole school of fish who pulled it out of the riverbed with their fins

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:e4:o2:1
# text = By a whole school of fish who pulled it out of the riverbed with their fins
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | fish | school |  | the riverbed |  | with fish's fins | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out riverbed=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By a falcon who swooped down from above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:e4:o3:1
# text = By a falcon who swooped down from above
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	above	above	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by a falcon | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By the cat who dove under water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:e4:o4:1
# text = By the cat who dove under water
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dove	dove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dove** | present | the cat |  |  | water |  |  | tree rules |

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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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