--- title: What did the Princess set down before she began to eat the oranges? — Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the Princess set down before she began to eat the oranges? Exam question 1 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1422-pg503-part9/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/) / [Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1422-pg503-part9/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be… What did the Princess set down before she began to eat the oranges? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** set down, begin, eat · **To what, where:** oranges This is exam question 1 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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/1422-pg503-part9/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e1:1 # text = What did the Princess set down before she began to eat the oranges? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 oranges orange NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set down** | past · do-support | the Princess | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient what=Result | | 2 | **begin** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | the oranges | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Patient | 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} her basket ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e1:o1:1 # text = her basket 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} her golden basket ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e1:o2:1 # text = her golden basket 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} her lantern ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e1:o3:1 # text = her lantern 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} her basket of cakes and oranges ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:e1:o4:1 # text = her basket of cakes and oranges 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 oranges orange NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ ``` 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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