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title: Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace? — Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace? Exam question 4 of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…

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Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** substance, lake · **What happens:** form, replace · **To what, where:** lake, royal palace

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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/692-pg2435-part32/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:e4:1
# text = Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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 | **form** | past | which substance | the lake |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=Theme |
| 2 | **replace** | past | the lake | the royal palace |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-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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Boiling yellow sulphur mixed with black rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:e4:o1:1
# text = Boiling yellow sulphur mixed with black rock
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | Boiling yellow sulphur *not said here* |  |  |  | with black rock | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with rock=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Hot steaming sulphur from deep beneath the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:e4:o2:1
# text = Hot steaming sulphur from deep beneath the palace
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	steaming	steaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:e4:o3:1
# text = Silver
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Sulphur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:692-pg2435-part32:e4:o4:1
# text = Sulphur
1	Sulphur	sulphur	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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