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title: exam: What was the Prince's sentence for refusing the marriage? — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: What was the Prince's sentence for refusing the marriage? Exam question 3 of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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exam: What was the Prince's sentence for refusing the marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** exam, sentence · **What happens:** be, refuse · **To what, where:** sentence, marriage

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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/1554-pg540-part51/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e3:1
# text = exam: What was the Prince's sentence for refusing the marriage?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | exam | the Prince's sentence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** | gerund | the Prince's sentence *not said here* | the marriage |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme |

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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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lifelong imprisonment in the highest tower of the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e3:o1:1
# text = lifelong imprisonment in the highest tower of the castle
1	lifelong	lifelong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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being locked in a cell with no windows for many years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e3:o2:1
# text = being locked in a cell with no windows for many years
1	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | a cell with no windows | year |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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imprisonment in a tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e3:o3:1
# text = imprisonment in a tower
1	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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banishment to the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e3:o4:1
# text = banishment to the forest
1	banishment	banishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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