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title: Which object did the youngest Prince take from his pocket, having be… — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the youngest Prince take from his pocket, having been instructed to open it only before the King? Exam question 1 of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

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Which object did the youngest Prince take from his pocket, having been instructed to open it only before the King?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, youngest Prince · **What happens:** do, take, instruct, open · **To what, where:** pocket, object

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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/1452-pg503-part39/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:e1:1
# text = Which object did the youngest Prince take from his pocket, having been instructed to open it only before the King?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | the youngest Prince |  |  | Prince's pocket |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | gerund · perfect · passive | which object *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | object |  |  | before the King |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme before king=Location |

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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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A nut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:e1:o1:1
# text = A nut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nut	nut	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 hazelnut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:e1:o2:1
# text = A hazelnut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hazelnut	hazelnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A walnut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:e1:o3:1
# text = A walnut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:e1:o4:1
# text = A bean
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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