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title: Upon what coast was Halvor left becalmed? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printani… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what coast was Halvor left becalmed? Exam question 2 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

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Upon what coast was Halvor left becalmed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coast Halvor · **What happens:** be, leave, becalm · **To what, where:** coast Halvor

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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/1510-pg540-part7/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e2:1
# text = Upon what coast was Halvor left becalmed?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	becalmed	becalm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | coast Halvor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past | coast Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **becalm** | participle | coast Halvor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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the coast of the Admiral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e2:o1:1
# text = the coast of the Admiral
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the familiar shore of his birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e2:o2:1
# text = the familiar shore of his birth
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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 strange and unknown coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e2:o3:1
# text = a strange and unknown coast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	coast	coast	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 harbour of his homeland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:e2:o4:1
# text = a harbour of his homeland
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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