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title: Identify the means by which the queen met her death. — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Cat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the means by which the queen met her death. Exam question 4 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Cat…

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Identify the means by which the queen met her death.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, the, queen · **What happens:** identify, mean, meet, die · **To what, where:** death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» 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/107-pg11027-part10/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e4:1
# text = Identify the means by which the queen met her death.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **meet** | past | the queen | queen's death |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **die** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «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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love and jealousy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e4:o1:1
# text = love and jealousy
1	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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passion, illness, and a curse from the mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e4:o2:1
# text = passion, illness, and a curse from the mirror
1	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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passion and illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e4:o3:1
# text = passion and illness
1	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a poisoned apple eaten at the wedding feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:107-pg11027-part10:e4:o4:1
# text = a poisoned apple eaten at the wedding feast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | participle |  | a poisoned apple *not said here* |  | the wedding feast |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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