--- title: Upon what kind of land did the Princess and the Ambassador subsequen… — Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Upon what kind of land did the Princess and the Ambassador subsequently find themselves cast? Exam question 1 of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1509-pg540-part6/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, Princess Mayblossom, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1509-pg540-part6/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona… Upon what kind of land did the Princess and the Ambassador subsequently find themselves cast? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** do, find, cast · **To what, where:** Princess This is exam question 1 of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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/1509-pg540-part6/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:e1:1 # text = Upon what kind of land did the Princess and the Ambassador subsequently find themselves cast? 1 Upon upon ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Ambassador Ambassador PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 subsequently subsequently ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 15 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | upon what kind of land | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | present | the Princess and the Ambassador | Princess | | | | subsequently *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme | | 3 | **cast** | participle | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} A ship ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:e1:o1:1 # text = A ship 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A cave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:e1:o2:1 # text = A cave 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A foreign harbour town ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:e1:o3:1 # text = A foreign harbour town 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} An uninhabited island ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:e1:o4:1 # text = An uninhabited island 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 uninhabited uninhabited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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