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title: Which entity did the young man's wand render lifeless on the path to… — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which entity did the young man's wand render lifeless on the path to the Ettin's castle? Exam question 1 of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» of the books course
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# Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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Which entity did the young man's wand render lifeless on the path to the Ettin's castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** entity, wand · **What happens:** do, render

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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/1963-pg7439-part22/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e1:1
# text = Which entity did the young man's wand render lifeless on the path to the Ettin's castle?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	entity	entity	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	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	render	render	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Ettin	Ettin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which entity |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **render** | present | the young man's wand |  |  |  |  | lifeless *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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 monstrous beast with three heads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e1:o1:1
# text = a monstrous beast with three heads
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a fierce hound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e1:o2:1
# text = a fierce hound
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a monstrous beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e1:o3:1
# text = a monstrous beast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	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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a monstrous beast guarding the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e1:o4:1
# text = a monstrous beast guarding the path
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | gerund | a monstrous beast *not said here* | the path |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Beneficiary |

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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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