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title: Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of… — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of his sword? Exam question 1 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

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Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of his sword?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character, sword · **What happens:** sever, blow · **To what, where:** enchantress, two

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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/169-pg128-part9/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e1:1
# text = Which character severed the enchantress in two with a single blow of his sword?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	severed	sever	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	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sever** | past | which character | the enchantress |  | two |  | with a single blow of character's sword | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantress=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** |  | character's sword |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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The young king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e1:o1:1
# text = The young king
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	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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The Sultan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e1:o2:1
# text = The Sultan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	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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The fisherman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e1:o3:1
# text = The fisherman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	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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A guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:169-pg128-part9:e1:o4:1
# text = A guard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	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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