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description: Which action of the protagonist directly caused her eventual punishment? Exam question 1 of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…

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Which action of the protagonist directly caused her eventual punishment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** action, protagonist · **What happens:** cause, act, punish · **To what, where:** eventual punishment

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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/832-pg27200-part43/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:832-pg27200-part43:e1:1
# text = Which action of the protagonist directly caused her eventual punishment?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eventual	eventual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | which action of the protagonist | action's eventual punishment |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition punishment=Patient |
| 2 | **act** |  | the protagonist |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **punish** |  | action |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: 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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Her refusal to share the bread with the poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:832-pg27200-part43:e1:o1:1
# text = Her refusal to share the bread with the poor
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	refusal	refusal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | to-infinitive | Her refusal | the bread |  |  |  | with the poor | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her stealing of the wheaten loaf from the baker's shop at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:832-pg27200-part43:e1:o2:1
# text = Her stealing of the wheaten loaf from the baker's shop at night
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stealing	stealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** |  | Her *= she* | the wheaten loaf from the baker's shop |  |  | at night |  | nom stealing «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient at=obl |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her treading on the loaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:832-pg27200-part43:e1:o3:1
# text = Her treading on the loaf
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	treading	treading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Her treading upon the wheaten loaf to keep her shoes clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:832-pg27200-part43:e1:o4:1
# text = Her treading upon the wheaten loaf to keep her shoes clean
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	treading	treading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Her treading upon the wheaten loaf | treading's shoes |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |

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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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