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title: Which intervention altered the curse placed upon the princess at her… — Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which intervention altered the curse placed upon the princess at her christening? Exam question 4 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…

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Which intervention altered the curse placed upon the princess at her christening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** intervention · **What happens:** alter, place, christen · **To what, where:** curse

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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/1080-pg29021-part5/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e4:1
# text = Which intervention altered the curse placed upon the princess at her christening?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	altered	alter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	christening	christening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** | past | which intervention | the curse |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curse=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | the curse *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the princess at intervention's christening | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon princess=Destination |
| 3 | **christen** |  | intervention |  |  |  |  |  | nom christening «act transitive»: 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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a fairy's kiss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e4:o1:1
# text = a fairy's kiss
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** |  | a fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a kind prince's secret kiss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = a kind prince's secret kiss
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** |  | a kind prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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the young Fairy's hidden speech

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = the young Fairy's hidden speech
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** |  | the young Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the old Fairy's secret spell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1080-pg29021-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = the old Fairy's secret spell
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** |  | the old Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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