--- title: By what means did the Prince endure the long march towards the Ice M… — Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he w… · tree and pragmatics description: By what means did the Prince endure the long march towards the Ice Mountain? Exam question 2 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1893-pg7277-part30/e2/) [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/) / [Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1893-pg7277-part30/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart… By what means did the Prince endure the long march towards the Ice Mountain? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** mean, endure · **To what, where:** long march · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 2 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice 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/1893-pg7277-part30/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e2:1 # text = By what means did the Prince endure the long march towards the Ice Mountain? 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 endure endure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **endure** | past · do-support | the Prince | the long march | | | | towards the Ice Mountain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme march=Circumstance | 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} Through fire and great luck ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e2:o1:1 # text = Through fire and great luck 1 Through through ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} By patience and perseverance through every hardship ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e2:o2:1 # text = By patience and perseverance through every hardship 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 perseverance perseverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 hardship hardship NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} By patience and perseverance, and by the spaniels' help ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e2:o3:1 # text = By patience and perseverance, and by the spaniels' help 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 perseverance perseverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 spaniels spaniel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | | the spaniels | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} By patience and perseverance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e2:o4:1 # text = By patience and perseverance 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 perseverance perseverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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