--- title: Why did the royal officers resolve to tender their resignations? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics description: Why did the royal officers resolve to tender their resignations? Exam question 4 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1484-pg503-part71/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1484-pg503-part71/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t… Why did the royal officers resolve to tender their resignations? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** royal officers, officers · **What happens:** do, resolve, tender, resign · **To what, where:** resignations This is exam question 4 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» 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/1484-pg503-part71/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e4:1 # text = Why did the royal officers resolve to tender their resignations? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 resolve resolve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 tender tender VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 resignations resignation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **resolve** | present | the royal officers | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tender** | to-infinitive | the royal officers *not said here* | officers's resignations | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **resign** | | officers *= officer* | | | | | | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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} They feared the tailor's strength ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e4:o1:1 # text = They feared the tailor's strength 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | They | the tailor's strength | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} They feared the king's anger ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e4:o2:1 # text = They feared the king's anger 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | They | the king's anger | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus | | 2 | **anger** | | the king | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} They were ashamed of losing to a mere tailor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e4:o3:1 # text = They were ashamed of losing to a mere tailor 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | They | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | They *not said here* | | | | | to a mere tailor | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} They feared the tailor's strength and his tricks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e4:o4:1 # text = They feared the tailor's strength and his tricks 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | They | the tailor's strength and tailor's tricks | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus | | 2 | **trick** | | tailor | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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