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title: so like, what was the sword actually good for? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: so like, what was the sword actually good for? Test 4 · ★ 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 the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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so like, what was the sword actually good for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sword

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This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t4:1
# text = so like, what was the sword actually good for?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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beating enemy armies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t4:o1:1
# text = beating enemy armies
1	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | gerund |  | enemy armies |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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nothing much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t4:o2:1
# text = nothing much
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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killing the dragons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t4:o3:1
# text = killing the dragons
1	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | gerund |  | the dragons |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fighting big wars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t4:o4:1
# text = fighting big wars
1	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  | big wars |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent |

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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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