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title: With what article did the Queen attempt the second deception of Snow… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75… · tree and pragmatics
description: With what article did the Queen attempt the second deception of Snowdrop? Exam question 1 of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

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With what article did the Queen attempt the second deception of Snowdrop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** article, Queen · **What happens:** do, attempt, deceive · **To what, where:** second deception, Snowdrop

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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/1578-pg540-part75/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:e1:1
# text = With what article did the Queen attempt the second deception of Snowdrop?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	deception	deception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | article |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attempt** | present | the Queen | the second deception of Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deception=Eventuality |
| 3 | **deceive** |  |  | Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | nom deception «communication transitive»: 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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a comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:e1:o1:1
# text = a comb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comb	comb	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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a poisonous cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:e1:o2:1
# text = a poisonous cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a poisonous comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:e1:o3:1
# text = a poisonous comb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a poisonous comb carved from bone and set with pins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:e1:o4:1
# text = a poisonous comb carved from bone and set with pins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | a poisonous comb *not said here* |  | bone |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with pins | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pin=Instrument |

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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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