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description: Which object did the Princesses bestow upon Halvor to facilitate his return home? Exam question 2 of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

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Which object did the Princesses bestow upon Halvor to facilitate his return home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, Princesses · **What happens:** do, bestow, facilitate, return · **To what, where:** return

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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/1511-pg540-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:e2:1
# text = Which object did the Princesses bestow upon Halvor to facilitate his return home?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bestow	bestow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bestow** | present | the Princesses |  |  |  |  | upon Halvor | tree rules |
| 3 | **facilitate** | to-infinitive | the Princesses *not said here* | object's return |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** |  | object |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication 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 {#o1}

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A horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = A horse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A ring granting passage by wish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = A ring granting passage by wish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | gerund | a ring *not said here* | passage |  |  |  | by wish | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent passage=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A golden cloak of silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = A golden cloak of silver
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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A ring for wishing home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = A ring for wishing home
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | gerund | a ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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