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title: What penalty attached to the King's proclamation against spindles? — Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: What penalty attached to the King's proclamation against spindles? Exam question 4 of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 4 · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

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What penalty attached to the King's proclamation against spindles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** attach, proclaim

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds 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/1427-pg503-part14/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:e4:1
# text = What penalty attached to the King's proclamation against spindles?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spindles	spindle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to the King's proclamation against spindles | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to proclamation=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **proclaim** |  | the King |  |  |  |  | against spindles | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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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ban

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:e4:o1:1
# text = ban
1	ban	ban	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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fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:e4:o2:1
# text = fine
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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prison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:e4:o3:1
# text = prison
1	prison	prison	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1427-pg503-part14:e4:o4:1
# text = death
1	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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