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title: Which object did the hero surrender to the old woman before receivin… — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the hero surrender to the old woman before receiving the wand in exchange? Exam question 4 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 4 · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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Which object did the hero surrender to the old woman before receiving the wand in exchange?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, receive · **To what, where:** hero surrender, wand, exchange

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e4:1
# text = Which object did the hero surrender to the old woman before receiving the wand in exchange?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	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	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the hero surrender |  |  |  | to the old woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | which object *not said here* | the wand |  | exchange |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wand=Theme in exchange=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a piece of his johnny-cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e4:o1:1
# text = a piece of his johnny-cake
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	johnny	johnny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the whole johnny-cake from his travel sack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e4:o2:1
# text = the whole johnny-cake from his travel sack
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	johnny	johnny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a piece of his bread roll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e4:o3:1
# text = a piece of his bread roll
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a piece of his johnny-cake and his last coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:e4:o4:1
# text = a piece of his johnny-cake and his last coin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	johnny	johnny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coin** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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