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title: What day did he head off, like? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks… · tree and pragmatics
description: What day did he head off, like? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

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What day did he head off, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** day, he · **What happens:** do off, head

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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/1459-pg503-part46/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t13:1
# text = What day did he head off, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do off** | past | day |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **head** |  | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t13:o1:1
# text = Sunday
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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Monday morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t13:o2:1
# text = Monday morning
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The third Monday morning after the feast of Saint Michael

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t13:o3:1
# text = The third Monday morning after the feast of Saint Michael
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tuesday night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1459-pg503-part46:t13:o4:1
# text = Tuesday night
1	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	night	night	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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