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title: What task was the Prince required to accomplish before the Water Kin… — Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What task was the Prince required to accomplish before the Water King, and within what period? Exam question 4 of lesson 436 «Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the King opens the coffers and his son must be given up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the…

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What task was the Prince required to accomplish before the Water King, and within what period?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** task, Prince · **What happens:** be, require, accomplish

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 436 «Russian Fairy Tales, The King and the Eagle, part 28: the King opens the coffers and his son must be given up» 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/436-pg22373-part28/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:436-pg22373-part28:e4:1
# text = What task was the Prince required to accomplish before the Water King, and within what period?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
17	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | task |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | before the Water King |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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 {#o1}

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A silver ring by dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:436-pg22373-part28:e4:o1:1
# text = A silver ring by dawn
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	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A golden crown in a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:436-pg22373-part28:e4:o2:1
# text = A golden crown in a week
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A crystal bridge within a single night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:436-pg22373-part28:e4:o3:1
# text = A crystal bridge within a single night
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A crystal bridge within a single night, swept clean by morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:436-pg22373-part28:e4:o4:1
# text = A crystal bridge within a single night, swept clean by morning
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | a crystal bridge within a single night |  |  |  | morning | clean *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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