--- title: Upon which hand-road did the prince, having been counselled, proceed… — Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: t… · tree and pragmatics description: Upon which hand-road did the prince, having been counselled, proceed at the parting of the ways? Exam question 1 of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1205-pg3282-part6/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1205-pg3282-part6/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the… Upon which hand-road did the prince, having been counselled, proceed at the parting of the ways? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hand road, ways · **What happens:** do, counsell, proceed, part · **To what, where:** prince, parting This is exam question 1 of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» 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/1205-pg3282-part6/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:e1:1 # text = Upon which hand-road did the prince, having been counselled, proceed at the parting of the ways? 1 Upon upon ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 counselled counsell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 proceed proceed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 parting parting NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | hand road | the prince | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | | 2 | **counsell** | gerund · perfect · passive | hand road *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **proceed** | infinitive | hand road *not said here* | | | the parting of the ways | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **part** | | the ways | | | | | | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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} the middle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:e1:o1:1 # text = the middle 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the left ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:e1:o2:1 # text = the left 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the right ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:e1:o3:1 # text = the right 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the northern ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1205-pg3282-part6:e1:o4:1 # text = the northern 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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