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title: By what means did the implements of the godmother pass to the orphan… — Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the implements of the godmother pass to the orphan girl? Exam question 2 of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

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By what means did the implements of the godmother pass to the orphan girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** implements · **What happens:** mean, pass

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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/1925-pg7277-part62/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:e2:1
# text = By what means did the implements of the godmother pass to the orphan girl?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	orphan	orphan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |
| 2 | **pass** | past · do-support | the implements of the godmother |  |  |  |  | to the orphan girl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by what=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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through a sale at the village fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:e2:o1:1
# text = through a sale at the village fair
1	through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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by inheritance at the godmother's death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:e2:o2:1
# text = by inheritance at the godmother's death
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | the godmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by theft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:e2:o3:1
# text = by theft
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	theft	theft	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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by purchase from a passing merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:e2:o4:1
# text = by purchase from a passing merchant
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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