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description: By what means did the prince's spell become broken at the end of the tale? Exam question 2 of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princes…

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By what means did the prince's spell become broken at the end of the tale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spell, prince · **What happens:** mean, do, become, break, spell · **To what, where:** end

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» 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/1646-pg5615-part35/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1646-pg5615-part35:e2:1
# text = By what means did the prince's spell become broken at the end of the tale?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **become** | present | the prince's spell |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | participle | the prince's spell *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end of the tale |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 5 | **spell** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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By the lion's destruction, the ashes cast upon the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1646-pg5615-part35:e2:o1:1
# text = By the lion's destruction, the ashes cast upon the water
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | present | the ashes |  |  |  |  | by the lion's destruction; upon the water | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by destruction=Destination |
| 2 | **destroy** |  | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Through the giant's final defeat by the brave girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1646-pg5615-part35:e2:o2:1
# text = Through the giant's final defeat by the brave girl
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defeat** |  | the brave girl | the giant |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=patient by=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By true love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1646-pg5615-part35:e2:o3:1
# text = By true love
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By the giant's sudden death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1646-pg5615-part35:e2:o4:1
# text = By the giant's sudden death
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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