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title: What substance was the Prince directed to cast forth in order to rai… — Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What substance was the Prince directed to cast forth in order to raise a mountain across the sea? Exam question 2 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

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What substance was the Prince directed to cast forth in order to raise a mountain across the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance, Prince · **What happens:** be, direct, cast, raise · **To what, where:** order, mountain, sea

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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/1443-pg503-part30/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e2:1
# text = What substance was the Prince directed to cast forth in order to raise a mountain across the sea?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	directed	direct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | substance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **direct** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cast** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  | order |  | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in order=Destination |
| 4 | **raise** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | a mountain |  | the sea |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme across sea=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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the bag of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e2:o1:1
# text = the bag of gold
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sack of sand and salt from the shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e2:o2:1
# text = a sack of sand and salt from the shore
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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the lump of salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e2:o3:1
# text = the lump of salt
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the piece of bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e2:o4:1
# text = the piece of bread
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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