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title: What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day describ… — Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17… · tree and pragmatics
description: What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day described? Exam question 4 of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…

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What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day described?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** occasion, describe · **To what, where:** presence, farm

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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/1092-pg29021-part17/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:e4:1
# text = What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day described?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occasion** | past |  | the Prince's presence |  | the farm | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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his return from the hunt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:e4:o1:1
# text = his return from the hunt
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** |  | his *= he* |  |  | the hunt |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he had been sent to bring the Princess back home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:e4:o2:1
# text = he had been sent to bring the Princess back home
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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his ride to the market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:e4:o3:1
# text = his ride to the market
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  | to the market | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a message from the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1092-pg29021-part17:e4:o4:1
# text = a message from the king
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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