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title: Which quality does the Queen's sacrifice of her last pea most clearl… — Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which quality does the Queen's sacrifice of her last pea most clearly demonstrate? Exam question 4 of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 4 · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

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Which quality does the Queen's sacrifice of her last pea most clearly demonstrate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality, last pea, Queen · **What happens:** do, demonstrate, sacrifice · **To what, where:** sacrifice, last pea

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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/1538-pg540-part35/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:e4:1
# text = Which quality does the Queen's sacrifice of her last pea most clearly demonstrate?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which quality | the Queen's sacrifice of quality's last pea |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **demonstrate** | infinitive | quality's last pea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sacrifice** |  | the Queen | quality's last pea |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Generosity toward a creature in need, shown even at her own great cost and hunger

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:e4:o1:1
# text = Generosity toward a creature in need, shown even at her own great cost and hunger
1	Generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | participle |  | a creature in need *not said here* |  | Generosity's own great cost and hunger |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cost** |  | Generosity |  |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Courage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:e4:o2:1
# text = Courage
1	Courage	courage	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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Kindness toward a helpless animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:e4:o3:1
# text = Kindness toward a helpless animal
1	Kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Generosity toward a creature in need

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:e4:o4:1
# text = Generosity toward a creature in need
1	Generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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