--- title: Which individual was responsible for placing the Prince within the b… — Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar… · tree and pragmatics description: Which individual was responsible for placing the Prince within the barrel and casting it into the sea? Exam question 1 of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1731-pg640-part55/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1731-pg640-part55/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th… Which individual was responsible for placing the Prince within the barrel and casting it into the sea? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** individual · **What happens:** be, place, cast · **To what, where:** Prince, individual, sea This is exam question 1 of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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/1731-pg640-part55/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:e1:1 # text = Which individual was responsible for placing the Prince within the barrel and casting it into the sea? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 individual individual NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 responsible responsible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 barrel barrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 casting cast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | which individual | | | | | responsible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **place** | gerund | which individual *not said here* | the Prince | | | | within the barrel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | | 3 | **cast** | gerund | which individual *not said here* | individual | | the sea | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into sea=Product | 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} the Giant's son ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:e1:o1:1 # text = the Giant's son 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the king's guard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:e1:o2:1 # text = the king's guard 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the old woman ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:e1:o3:1 # text = the old woman 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the cook ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:e1:o4:1 # text = the cook 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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