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title: What was the principal reason the Hamel parents continued their sear… — Perrault's Tales, The True History of… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal reason the Hamel parents continued their searches? Exam question 3 of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

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What was the principal reason the Hamel parents continued their searches?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hamel parents, parents · **What happens:** be, continue, search · **To what, where:** principal reason, searches

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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/1553-pg540-part50/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1553-pg540-part50:e3:1
# text = What was the principal reason the Hamel parents continued their searches?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	searches	search	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | the Hamel parents | parents's searches |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme |
| 3 | **search** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «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 {#o1}

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the wish for their safe return

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1553-pg540-part50:e3:o1:1
# text = the wish for their safe return
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the hope that the children lived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1553-pg540-part50:e3:o2:1
# text = the hope that the children lived
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the children | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hope=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the hope they were alive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1553-pg540-part50:e3:o3:1
# text = the hope they were alive
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the hope that the piper would one day return with them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1553-pg540-part50:e3:o4:1
# text = the hope that the piper would one day return with them
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | would | the piper | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  | with them *= they* | tree rules |

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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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