--- title: Which character's pride is identified in the passage as the cause of… — Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocke… · tree and pragmatics description: Which character's pride is identified in the passage as the cause of his death? Exam question 2 of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1892-pg7277-part29/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocke…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1892-pg7277-part29/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war,… Which character's pride is identified in the passage as the cause of his death? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character, pride · **What happens:** identify, pride, cause, die · **To what, where:** pride, passage, death This is exam question 2 of lesson 1892 «Fairy Book, Mannikin, part 29: a mocked Ambassador, a war, and Brandatimor defeated» 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/1892-pg7277-part29/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:e2:1 # text = Which character's pride is identified in the passage as the cause of his death? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 identified identify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | present · passive | | which character's pride | | the passage as the cause of pride's death | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **pride** | | which character | | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 3 | **cause** | | | pride's death | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **die** | | pride | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} The Ambassador of the Farda-Kinbras court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:e2:o1:1 # text = The Ambassador of the Farda-Kinbras court 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Ambassador Ambassador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 Farda Farda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Kinbras Kinbras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Brandatimor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:e2:o2:1 # text = Brandatimor 1 Brandatimor Brandatimor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Prince Fadasse of Farda-Kinbras ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:e2:o3:1 # text = Prince Fadasse of Farda-Kinbras 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Fadasse Fadasse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Farda Farda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Kinbras Kinbras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Mannikin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1892-pg7277-part29:e2:o4:1 # text = Mannikin 1 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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