--- title: On what day did the princess instruct Prince Ratibor to come with ho… — Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome a… · tree and pragmatics description: On what day did the princess instruct Prince Ratibor to come with horses and men to the hill? Exam question 2 of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1252-pg3282-part53/e2/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1252-pg3282-part53/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the… On what day did the princess instruct Prince Ratibor to come with horses and men to the hill? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** do, instruct, come · **To what, where:** Prince, hill This is exam question 2 of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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/1252-pg3282-part53/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:e2:1 # text = On what day did the princess instruct Prince Ratibor to come with horses and men to the hill? 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 instruct instruct VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 Ratibor Ratibor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | the princess | | Prince | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | | | the hill | | with horses and men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location | 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 second day from now ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:e2:o1:1 # text = the second day from now 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the next day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:e2:o2:1 # text = the next day 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the third day from this ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:e2:o3:1 # text = the third day from this 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the day before ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:e2:o4:1 # text = the day before 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 before before ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` 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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