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title: What did the young suitor resolve upon leaving the cellar? — Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the young suitor resolve upon leaving the cellar? Exam question 4 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 4 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

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What did the young suitor resolve upon leaving the cellar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** young suitor · **What happens:** resolve, leave · **To what, where:** cellar

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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/1547-pg540-part44/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e4:1
# text = What did the young suitor resolve upon leaving the cellar?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past · do-support | the young suitor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the young suitor *not said here* | the cellar |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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to search for three wiser people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e4:o1:1
# text = to search for three wiser people
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	search	search	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for three wiser people | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for people=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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to find three wiser men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e4:o2:1
# text = to find three wiser men
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | three wiser men |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to seek three persons more foolish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e4:o3:1
# text = to seek three persons more foolish
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seek	seek	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | three persons |  |  |  | foolish *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to visit the king's great court and ask for advice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:e4:o4:1
# text = to visit the king's great court and ask for advice
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | to-infinitive |  | the king's great court |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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