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title: What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual who completes the vigil? Exam question 2 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» of the books course of M
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

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What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual who completes the vigil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** compensation, monarch, individual · **What happens:** have, pledge, complete · **To what, where:** individual, vigil

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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/782-pg2591-part58/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e2:1
# text = What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual who completes the vigil?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	compensation	compensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	completes	complete	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vigil	vigil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | what compensation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pledge** | past | the monarch |  | the individual |  |  | formally *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to individual=Recipient |
| 3 | **complete** | present | the individual | the vigil |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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his daughter in marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e2:o1:1
# text = his daughter in marriage
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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half the royal treasury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e2:o2:1
# text = half the royal treasury
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	treasury	treasury	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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his youngest daughter in marriage and a dowry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e2:o3:1
# text = his youngest daughter in marriage and a dowry
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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half the kingdom and his daughter in marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:782-pg2591-part58:e2:o4:1
# text = half the kingdom and his daughter in marriage
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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