--- title: Which entity is stated to be immortal and to be confined within a ca… — Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,… · tree and pragmatics description: Which entity is stated to be immortal and to be confined within a castle under guard? Exam question 4 of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» of the books course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r… Which entity is stated to be immortal and to be confined within a castle under guard? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** state, be, confine · **To what, where:** entity, guard This is exam question 4 of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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/1188-pg3027-part54/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:e4:1 # text = Which entity is stated to be immortal and to be confined within a castle under guard? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 entity entity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 stated state VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 immortal immortal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 confined confine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 within within ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive | | which entity | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | immortal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **confine** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | guard | | within a castle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | 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} the witch ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:e4:o1:1 # text = the witch 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the Bird of Truth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:e4:o2:1 # text = the Bird of Truth 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Truth Truth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the crystal cradle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:e4:o3:1 # text = the crystal cradle 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 crystal crystal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the giant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:e4:o4:1 # text = the giant 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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