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title: What sentence did the husband pronounce upon his wife, and what requ… — Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sentence did the husband pronounce upon his wife, and what request did she make in reply? Exam question 3 of lesson 1481 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the forbidden closet and is saved by her brothers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 3 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…

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What sentence did the husband pronounce upon his wife, and what request did she make in reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sentence, husband · **What happens:** do, pronounce, be, make · **To what, where:** reply

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1481 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the forbidden closet and is saved by her brothers» 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/1481-pg503-part68/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e3:1
# text = What sentence did the husband pronounce upon his wife, and what request did she make in reply?
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	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	request	request	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	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** | infinitive | the husband |  |  |  |  | upon husband's wife | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · do-support | sentence |  |  | reply |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «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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death, with a request for time to pray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e3:o1:1
# text = death, with a request for time to pray
1	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
prison, with a plea for mercy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e3:o2:1
# text = prison, with a plea for mercy
1	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plea	plea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
exile, with a plea for mercy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e3:o3:1
# text = exile, with a plea for mercy
1	exile	Exile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plea	plea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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death by the sword, with a request for a moment to pray to God

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1481-pg503-part68:e3:o4:1
# text = death by the sword, with a request for a moment to pray to God
1	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | to-infinitive |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **die** |  | the sword |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: by=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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