--- title: Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by me… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silv… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by means of a poisoned stab. Exam question 1 of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1998-pg7885-part17/e1/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silv…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1998-pg7885-part17/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous… Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by means of a poisoned stab. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, character, her · **What happens:** identify, send, mean, poison, die · **To what, where:** character, stepdaughter, death This is exam question 1 of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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/1998-pg7885-part17/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:e1:1 # text = Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by means of a poisoned stab. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 stepdaughter stepdaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 poisoned poison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 stab stab NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the character | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme | | 2 | **send** | present | the character | her stepdaughter | | her death | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Theme to death=Destination | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of a poisoned stab | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **poison** | participle | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **die** | | her *= she* | | | | | | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Silver-tree ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:e1:o1:1 # text = Silver-tree 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nell ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:e1:o2:1 # text = Nell 1 Nell Nell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the trout ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:e1:o3:1 # text = the trout 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trout trout NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the maid ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:e1:o4:1 # text = the maid 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 maid maid NOUN NN 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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