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title: Upon what seat did the sovereign, King Arthur, recline within the gr… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what seat did the sovereign, King Arthur, recline within the great hall at Caerleon? Exam question 1 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

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Upon what seat did the sovereign, King Arthur, recline within the great hall at Caerleon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seat, King Arthur · **What happens:** do, recline · **To what, where:** sovereign

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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/1324-pg3454-part49/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e1:1
# text = Upon what seat did the sovereign, King Arthur, recline within the great hall at Caerleon?
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	recline	recline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Caerleon	Caerleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | seat | the sovereign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recline** | infinitive | King Arthur |  |  |  |  | within the great hall at Caerleon | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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The floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e1:o1:1
# text = The floor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	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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A carved high seat of oak beside the hearth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e1:o2:1
# text = A carved high seat of oak beside the hearth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bench by the hearth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e1:o3:1
# text = A bench by the hearth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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A seat of green rushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e1:o4:1
# text = A seat of green rushes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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