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title: exam: What object did the King hold before the Princess? — Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: What object did the King hold before the Princess? Exam question 4 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 the question and of e
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# Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…

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exam: What object did the King hold before the Princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** exam

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e4:1
# text = exam: What object did the King hold before the Princess?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | exam |  |  | before the Princess |  | 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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a cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e4:o1:1
# text = a cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	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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a painting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e4:o2:1
# text = a painting
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a lantern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e4:o3:1
# text = a lantern
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1554-pg540-part51:e4:o4:1
# text = a mirror
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mirror	mirror	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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