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description: To whom did the Shifty Lad propose marriage after the death of the Black Rogue? Exam question 4 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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To whom did the Shifty Lad propose marriage after the death of the Black Rogue?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Shifty Lad, Black Rogue · **What happens:** propose, die · **To what, where:** marriage

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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/1278-pg3454-part3/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e4:1
# text = To whom did the Shifty Lad propose marriage after the death of the Black Rogue?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	propose	propose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past · do-support | the Shifty Lad | marriage |  |  | after the death of the Black Rogue |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme |
| 2 | **die** |  | the Black Rogue |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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the miller's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e4:o1:1
# text = the miller's daughter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	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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the king's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e4:o2:1
# text = the king's daughter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the Black Rogue's widow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e4:o3:1
# text = the Black Rogue's widow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	widow	widow	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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the widow of the man he had hanged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:e4:o4:1
# text = the widow of the man he had hanged
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hange** | past · perfect | man | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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