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title: Which object does Kate employ to restore her sister's former appeara… — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object does Kate employ to restore her sister's former appearance? Exam question 2 of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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Which object does Kate employ to restore her sister's former appearance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** employ, restore · **To what, where:** former appearance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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/1972-pg7439-part31/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e2:1
# text = Which object does Kate employ to restore her sister's former appearance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | present · do-support | which object |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **restore** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | Kate's sister's former appearance |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme |

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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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A silver ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e2:o1:1
# text = A silver ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e2:o2:1
# text = A wand
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The nuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e2:o3:1
# text = The nuts
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The fairy wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e2:o4:1
# text = The fairy wand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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