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title: What petition did the Soldier make before the rope was placed upon h… — Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What petition did the Soldier make before the rope was placed upon him? Exam question 4 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

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What petition did the Soldier make before the rope was placed upon him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** petition, Soldier · **What happens:** do, make, place · **To what, where:** rope

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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/1738-pg640-part62/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e4:1
# text = What petition did the Soldier make before the rope was placed upon him?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	petition	petition	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	5	det	_	_
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what petition |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **place** | past · passive |  | the rope |  |  |  | upon Soldier | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon he=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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permission to smoke one last pipe of tobacco before the rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e4:o1:1
# text = permission to smoke one last pipe of tobacco before the rope
1	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | to-infinitive |  | one last pipe of tobacco |  |  | before the rope |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a delay of one hour so he could say farewell to the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e4:o2:1
# text = a delay of one hour so he could say farewell to the Princess
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | he | farewell | the Princess |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to princess=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a chance to see his mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e4:o3:1
# text = a chance to see his mother
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | his mother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |

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

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permission to smoke a pipe of tobacco

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:e4:o4:1
# text = permission to smoke a pipe of tobacco
1	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | to-infinitive |  | a pipe of tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |

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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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