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title: exam: In what manner did the Prince respond to the portrait of the P… — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: In what manner did the Prince respond to the portrait of the Princess? Exam question 1 of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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exam: In what manner did the Prince respond to the portrait of the Princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** exam · **What happens:** do, portray · **To what, where:** Prince respond, Princess

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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/1554-pg540-part51/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e1:1
# text = exam: In what manner did the Prince respond to the portrait of the Princess?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	respond	respond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | exam in what manner | the Prince respond |  |  |  | to the portrait of the Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality |
| 2 | **portray** |  |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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with a disdainful air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e1:o1:1
# text = with a disdainful air
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	disdainful	disdainful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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angrily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e1:o2:1
# text = angrily
1	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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with a sad glance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e1:o3:1
# text = with a sad glance
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	glance	glance	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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with a curious look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e1:o4:1
# text = with a curious look
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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