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title: What was Rosimond's stated motive for relinquishing the enchanted ri… — Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was Rosimond's stated motive for relinquishing the enchanted ring? Exam question 3 of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

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What was Rosimond's stated motive for relinquishing the enchanted ring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stated motive · **What happens:** state, be, relinquish, enchant · **To what, where:** stated motive, enchanted ring

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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/1895-pg7277-part32/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:e3:1
# text = What was Rosimond's stated motive for relinquishing the enchanted ring?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	motive	motive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	relinquishing	relinquish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Rosimond's stated motive |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **relinquish** | gerund | Rosimond's stated motive *not said here* | the enchanted ring |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 4 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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fear of the King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:e3:o1:1
# text = fear of the King
1	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** |  |  | the King |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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greed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:e3:o2:1
# text = greed
1	greed	greed	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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pride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:e3:o3:1
# text = pride
1	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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fear of misuse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:e3:o4:1
# text = fear of misuse
1	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	misuse	misuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** |  |  | misuse |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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