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title: Which object did the princess handle before falling into her sleep? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the princess handle before falling into her sleep? Exam question 1 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre…

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Which object did the princess handle before falling into her sleep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, fall, sleep · **To what, where:** princess handle, sleep

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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/731-pg2591-part7/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e1:1
# text = Which object did the princess handle before falling into her sleep?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
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	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the princess handle |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | which object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into object's sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | object |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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the needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e1:o1:1
# text = the needle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	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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the thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e1:o2:1
# text = the thread
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thread	thread	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 rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e1:o3:1
# text = a rope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	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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the spindle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:e1:o4:1
# text = the spindle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spindle	spindle	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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