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title: Which implement did the enchantress employ to effect the transformat… — A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which implement did the enchantress employ to effect the transformation? Exam question 2 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 2 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

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Which implement did the enchantress employ to effect the transformation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** implement · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** enchantress employ

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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/2065-pg976-part24/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e2:1
# text = Which implement did the enchantress employ to effect the transformation?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	implement	implement	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	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	employ	employ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 | **do** | past | which implement | the enchantress employ |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality |

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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 jeweled ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e2:o1:1
# text = A jeweled ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jeweled	jewel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jewel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A slender rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e2:o2:1
# text = A slender rod
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rod	rod	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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A thin wand of ivory and gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e2:o3:1
# text = A thin wand of ivory and gold
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A silver spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e2:o4:1
# text = A silver spoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	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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