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title: Like, what did the path look like for his return? — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what did the path look like for his return? Test 13 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 13 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

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Like, what did the path look like for his return?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** path · **What happens:** look, return

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This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t13:1
# text = Like, what did the path look like for his return?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the path |  |  |  |  | like path's return | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **return** |  | path |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Muddy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t13:o1:1
# text = Muddy
1	Muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Strewn with flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t13:o2:1
# text = Strewn with flowers
1	Strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Covered in snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t13:o3:1
# text = Covered in snow
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lined with trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1452-pg503-part39:t13:o4:1
# text = Lined with trees
1	Lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme |

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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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