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title: By what means did the husband in the second tale retrieve the golden… — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the husband in the second tale retrieve the golden arm from the deceased? Exam question 2 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 cou
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# Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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By what means did the husband in the second tale retrieve the golden arm from the deceased?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** mean, retrieve, decease · **To what, where:** golden arm, second tale

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e2:1
# text = By what means did the husband in the second tale retrieve the golden arm from the deceased?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
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=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **retrieve** | past · do-support |  | the golden arm |  | the second tale |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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by bribing the grave digger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e2:o1:1
# text = by bribing the grave digger
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bribing	bribe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	digger	digger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bribe** | gerund |  | the grave digger |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent digger=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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with a spade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e2:o2:1
# text = with a spade
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spade	spade	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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by digging up the body at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e2:o3:1
# text = by digging up the body at night
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | gerund |  | the body |  |  | night |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by stealing the golden ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e2:o4:1
# text = by stealing the golden ring
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund |  | the golden ring |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme |

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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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