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title: Identify the item that the girl placed in the king's soup on the fir… — Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the item that the girl placed in the king's soup on the first occasion. Exam question 2 of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

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Identify the item that the girl placed in the king's soup on the first occasion.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, place · **To what, where:** item, girl, soup

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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/787-pg2591-part63/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:e2:1
# text = Identify the item that the girl placed in the king's soup on the first occasion.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the item |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | the girl *not said here* |  | the king's soup |  | on the first occasion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on occasion=Destination |

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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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A tiny silver ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:e2:o1:1
# text = A tiny silver ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ring	ring	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 small golden ring from her finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:e2:o2:1
# text = A small golden ring from her finger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A little golden locket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:e2:o3:1
# text = A little golden locket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	locket	locket	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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A small golden ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:e2:o4:1
# text = A small golden ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	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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