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title: What did the two brothers report regarding Cinderlad's conduct durin… — Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinde… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the two brothers report regarding Cinderlad's conduct during the three days of riding? Exam question 3 of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

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What did the two brothers report regarding Cinderlad's conduct during the three days of riding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two brothers, Cinderlad · **What happens:** do, report, regard, conduct

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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/1492-pg503-part79/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1492-pg503-part79:e3:1
# text = What did the two brothers report regarding Cinderlad's conduct during the three days of riding?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	report	report	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
8	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **report** | present | the two brothers |  |  |  |  | regard Cinderlad's conduct | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **conduct** |  | Cinderlad |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He never left the cinder-heap on any of the three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1492-pg503-part79:e3:o1:1
# text = He never left the cinder-heap on any of the three days
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | past | He | the cinder heap |  | any |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heap=Theme on any=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He never left the palace on any of the three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1492-pg503-part79:e3:o2:1
# text = He never left the palace on any of the three days
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | past | He | the palace |  | any |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on any=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He never once washed on any of the three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1492-pg503-part79:e3:o3:1
# text = He never once washed on any of the three days
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wash** | participle · passive |  | He |  | any |  | once *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He stayed in the cinders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1492-pg503-part79:e3:o4:1
# text = He stayed in the cinders
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | He |  |  | the cinders |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cinder=Location |

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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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