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title: Which of the following individuals provided the King with a ball of… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of the following individuals provided the King with a ball of cotton that revealed the path? Exam question 4 of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…

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Which of the following individuals provided the King with a ball of cotton that revealed the path?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ball · **What happens:** follow, provide, reveal · **To what, where:** King, path

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» 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/120-pg11027-part23/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:120-pg11027-part23:e4:1
# text = Which of the following individuals provided the King with a ball of cotton that revealed the path?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** | past |  |  | the King |  |  | with a ball of cotton | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent king=Recipient with ball=Theme |
| 3 | **reveal** | past | a ball of cotton | the path |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A wise woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:120-pg11027-part23:e4:o1:1
# text = A wise woman
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An old beggar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:120-pg11027-part23:e4:o2:1
# text = An old beggar
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A passing girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:120-pg11027-part23:e4:o3:1
# text = A passing girl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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An old and wise woman who lived in a hut nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:120-pg11027-part23:e4:o4:1
# text = An old and wise woman who lived in a hut nearby
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a old woman |  |  | a hut |  | nearby *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |

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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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