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title: Which precious substance was the first fountain required to play? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which precious substance was the first fountain required to play? Exam question 3 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

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Which precious substance was the first fountain required to play?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** first fountain, precious substance · **What happens:** substance, be, require, play · **To what, where:** first fountain

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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/1684-pg640-part8/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e3:1
# text = Which precious substance was the first fountain required to play?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **substance** |  | the first fountain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | precious substance | the first fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | participle |  | the first fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e3:o1:1
# text = Tin
1	Tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e3:o2:1
# text = Brass
1	Brass	brass	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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Ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e3:o3:1
# text = Ash
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e3:o4:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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