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title: Which implement did the prince employ to slay the white-headed calf? — Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which implement did the prince employ to slay the white-headed calf? Exam question 1 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

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Which implement did the prince employ to slay the white-headed calf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** implement · **What happens:** do, slay · **To what, where:** prince employ, headed calf

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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/1765-pg641-part16/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e1:1
# text = Which implement did the prince employ to slay the white-headed calf?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which implement | the prince employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive | which implement *not said here* | the headed calf |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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 {#o1}

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a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e1:o1:1
# text = a sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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a rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e1:o2:1
# text = a rod
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	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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an awl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e1:o3:1
# text = an awl
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	awl	awl	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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an axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e1:o4:1
# text = an axe
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axe	axe	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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