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title: Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the… — Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the view of the world. Exam question 4 of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependenc
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…

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Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the view of the world.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** indicate, conceal, view · **To what, where:** manner, palace, view, world

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» 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/1701-pg640-part25/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1701-pg640-part25:e4:1
# text = Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the view of the world.
1	Indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | imperative | you *not said here* | the manner |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Topic |
| 2 | **conceal** | past | the King | King's palace |  | the view of the world |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent palace=Patient from view=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **view** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 surrounding it with a dense cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1701-pg640-part25:e4:o1:1
# text = by surrounding it with a dense cloud
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  | with a dense cloud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with cloud=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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with a dense grove of ancient trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1701-pg640-part25:e4:o2:1
# text = with a dense grove of ancient trees
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by hiding it under a thick mist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1701-pg640-part25:e4:o3:1
# text = by hiding it under a thick mist
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | it |  | a thick mist |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under mist=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by building a hedge of thorns and a thousand guards at each gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1701-pg640-part25:e4:o4:1
# text = by building a hedge of thorns and a thousand guards at each gate
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | gerund |  | a hedge of thorns and thousand guards |  | each gate |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedge=Product |

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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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