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title: exam: Which object did the princess cast into the river? — Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse h… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: Which object did the princess cast into the river? Exam question 1 of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 1 · Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back t…

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exam: Which object did the princess cast into the river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** exam · **What happens:** do, cast · **To what, where:** princess, river

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» 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/1187-pg3027-part53/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:e1:1
# text = exam: Which object did the princess cast into the river?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | exam | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cast** | participle |  | the princess *not said here* |  | the river |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into river=Product |

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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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a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:e1:o1:1
# text = a ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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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her golden wedding ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:e1:o2:1
# text = her golden wedding ring
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	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 3 {#o3}

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a jewel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:e1:o3:1
# text = a jewel
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a brooch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:e1:o4:1
# text = a brooch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brooch	brooch	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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