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title: What object did the princess affix to the lad's hair as a token of i… — English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-C… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did the princess affix to the lad's hair as a token of identification? Exam question 2 of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

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What object did the princess affix to the lad's hair as a token of identification?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** princess affix

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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/261-pg14241-part28/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:e2:1
# text = What object did the princess affix to the lad's hair as a token of identification?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	object	object	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	6	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	affix	affix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	identification	identification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | the princess affix |  |  |  | to the lad's hair; as a token of identification | tree rules |

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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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a ribbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:e2:o1:1
# text = a ribbon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a silver comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:e2:o2:1
# text = a silver comb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comb	comb	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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a golden brooch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:e2:o3:1
# text = a golden brooch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a diamond ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:261-pg14241-part28:e2:o4:1
# text = a diamond ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	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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