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title: Which substance did the Raven employ to restore Prince Ivan's body? — Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance did the Raven employ to restore Prince Ivan's body? Exam question 3 of lesson 1514 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his wife, is chopped up and brought back to life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his…

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Which substance did the Raven employ to restore Prince Ivan's body?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** employ, restore · **To what, where:** body

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1514 «Russian Folk-Tales, Marya Morevna, part 11: Ivan finds his wife, is chopped up and brought back to life» 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/1514-pg540-part11/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1514-pg540-part11:e3:1
# text = Which substance did the Raven employ to restore Prince Ivan's body?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · do-support | which substance |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **restore** | to-infinitive | which substance *not said here* | Prince Ivan's body |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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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the grey water of the blue sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1514-pg540-part11:e3:o1:1
# text = the grey water of the blue sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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the Water of Death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1514-pg540-part11:e3:o2:1
# text = the Water of Death
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Water of Death from the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1514-pg540-part11:e3:o3:1
# text = the Water of Death from the well
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Water of Life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1514-pg540-part11:e3:o4:1
# text = Water of Life
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	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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