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title: Of what occupation was the companion of the prince's youth? — Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what occupation was the companion of the prince's youth? Exam question 2 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

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Of what occupation was the companion of the prince's youth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** occupation · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** companion

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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/1236-pg3282-part37/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e2:1
# text = Of what occupation was the companion of the prince's youth?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | occupation | the companion |  |  |  | of the prince's youth | tree rules |

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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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the son of the chief gardener

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e2:o1:1
# text = the son of the chief gardener
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	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	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a poor boy from the far village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e2:o2:1
# text = a poor boy from the far village
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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son of the miller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e2:o3:1
# text = son of the miller
1	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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son of the gardener

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1236-pg3282-part37:e2:o4:1
# text = son of the gardener
1	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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