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title: Which creature did the youngest daughter first attend to before she… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature did the youngest daughter first attend to before she herself consumed the supper prepared for the household? Exam question 2 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

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Which creature did the youngest daughter first attend to before she herself consumed the supper prepared for the household?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creature, youngest daughter · **What happens:** do, attend, consume, prepare · **To what, where:** youngest daughter, supper

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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/1615-pg5615-part4/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e2:1
# text = Which creature did the youngest daughter first attend to before she herself consumed the supper prepared for the household?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	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	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	conj	_	_
13	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which creature | the youngest daughter |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
| 2 | **attend** | infinitive | the youngest daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consume** | past | creature | the supper |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Asset |
| 4 | **prepare** | participle |  | the supper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «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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the beasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e2:o1:1
# text = the beasts
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e2:o2:1
# text = the cock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cock	cock	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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the cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e2:o3:1
# text = the cow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	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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the hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e2:o4:1
# text = the hen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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