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title: By what means did the Prince's intervention preserve the three affli… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the Prince's intervention preserve the three afflicted provinces? Exam question 2 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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By what means did the Prince's intervention preserve the three afflicted provinces?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** intervention, Prince · **What happens:** mean, do, preserve, afflict, intervene · **To what, where:** three afflicted provinces

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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/117-pg11027-part20/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e2:1
# text = By what means did the Prince's intervention preserve the three afflicted provinces?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	preserve	preserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **preserve** | present | the Prince's intervention | the three afflicted provinces |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **afflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **intervene** |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom intervention «act intransitive»: poss=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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with the bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e2:o1:1
# text = with the bread
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bread	bread	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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by giving gold and his horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e2:o2:1
# text = by giving gold and his horse
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | gold and his horse |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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

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by supplying bread and the sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e2:o3:1
# text = by supplying bread and the sword
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	supplying	supply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | gerund |  | bread and the sword |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by feeding the lions the meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e2:o4:1
# text = by feeding the lions the meat
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | gerund |  | the meat | the lions |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient meat=Theme |

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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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