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title: By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery? Exam question 3 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 of each option; Mova
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# Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** mean, do, recover · **To what, where:** Kate effect · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e3:1
# text = By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery?
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
5	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	recovery	recovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present |  | Kate effect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=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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By singing to the birdie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e3:o1:1
# text = By singing to the birdie
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  | the birdie |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to birdie=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Feeding him the birdie's wing and breast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e3:o2:1
# text = Feeding him the birdie's wing and breast
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | gerund |  | the birdie's wing and breast | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wing=Theme |

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

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Three bites of the birdie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e3:o3:1
# text = Three bites of the birdie
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** |  |  | the birdie |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three bites of the birdie, given slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:e3:o4:1
# text = Three bites of the birdie, given slowly
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | Three bites of the birdie *not said here* |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bite** |  |  | the birdie |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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