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title: Identify the creature whom the king's son assisted in combat. — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the creature whom the king's son assisted in combat. Exam question 2 of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

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Identify the creature whom the king's son assisted in combat.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, assist · **To what, where:** creature, combat

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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/2017-pg7885-part36/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:e2:1
# text = Identify the creature whom the king's son assisted in combat.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the creature |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme |
| 2 | **assist** | participle · passive |  | the creature |  | combat |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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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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the badger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:e2:o1:1
# text = the badger
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:e2:o2:1
# text = the raven
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	raven	raven	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 big black raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:e2:o3:1
# text = the big black raven
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	raven	raven	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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the fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:e2:o4:1
# text = the fox
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	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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