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title: By what means did Cinderlad acquire the strength necessary to wield… — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did Cinderlad acquire the strength necessary to wield the sword? Exam question 4 of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

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By what means did Cinderlad acquire the strength necessary to wield the sword?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cinderlad · **What happens:** mean, acquire, wield · **To what, where:** strength, sword

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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/1582-pg540-part79/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:e4:1
# text = By what means did Cinderlad acquire the strength necessary to wield the sword?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	wield	wield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **acquire** | past · do-support | Cinderlad | the strength |  |  |  | necessary *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 3 | **wield** | to-infinitive |  | the sword |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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 {#o1}

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By eating bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:e4:o1:1
# text = By eating bread
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By prayer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:e4:o2:1
# text = By prayer
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By resting after the long hard ride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:e4:o3:1
# text = By resting after the long hard ride
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after the long hard ride |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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By drinking repeatedly from the pitcher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:e4:o4:1
# text = By drinking repeatedly from the pitcher
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  | the pitcher |  | repeatedly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from pitcher=Source |

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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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