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title: What sentence did the King pronounce upon his youngest Son? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sentence did the King pronounce upon his youngest Son? Exam question 3 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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What sentence did the King pronounce upon his youngest Son?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sentence, King · **What happens:** do, pronounce

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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/117-pg11027-part20/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e3:1
# text = What sentence did the King pronounce upon his youngest Son?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	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	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	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 | sentence |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pronounce** | present | the King |  |  |  |  | upon King's youngest Son | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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that he be secretly shot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e3:o1:1
# text = that he be secretly shot
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | infinitive · passive |  | he |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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death by fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e3:o2:1
# text = death by fire
1	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: by=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to be hanged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e3:o3:1
# text = to be hanged
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hange** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to be exiled forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:e3:o4:1
# text = to be exiled forever
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	exiled	exile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exile** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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