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description: What penalty did the king stipulate for the youth's failure to locate the princess? Exam question 3 of lesson 1651 «Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hides in a golden lion, wins the princess by her white sash, and marries her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 3 · Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hid…

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What penalty did the king stipulate for the youth's failure to locate the princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king, youth · **What happens:** stipulate, locate, fail · **To what, where:** princess

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1651 «Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hides in a golden lion, wins the princess by her white sash, and marries her» 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/1651-pg5615-part40/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:e3:1
# text = What penalty did the king stipulate for the youth's failure to locate the princess?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obl	_	_
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	locate	locate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stipulate** | past · do-support | the king |  |  |  |  | for the youth's failure | tree rules |
| 2 | **locate** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fail** |  | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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 forfeit of his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:e3:o1:1
# text = The forfeit of his head
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forfeit** |  |  | his head |  |  |  |  | nom forfeit «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:e3:o2:1
# text = A fine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 loss of his gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:e3:o3:1
# text = The loss of his gold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1651-pg5615-part40:e3:o4:1
# text = Exile
1	Exile	Exile	PROPN	NNP	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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