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title: Specify the reason the Princess could not traverse the Golden Founta… — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the reason the Princess could not traverse the Golden Fountain unaided. Exam question 3 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

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Specify the reason the Princess could not traverse the Golden Fountain unaided.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Princess, Golden Fountain · **What happens:** specify, not traverse, unaid · **To what, where:** reason

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e3:1
# text = Specify the reason the Princess could not traverse the Golden Fountain unaided.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	traverse	traverse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	unaided	unaid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **traverse** | could | the Princess | the reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **unaid** | past | the Golden Fountain |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Want of power to fly across

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e3:o1:1
# text = Want of power to fly across
1	Want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	across	across	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of power | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lack of magic to breathe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e3:o2:1
# text = Lack of magic to breathe
1	Lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lack** |  |  | magic |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lack of boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e3:o3:1
# text = Lack of boat
1	Lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** |  |  | boat |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Absence of power to live under water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:e3:o4:1
# text = Absence of power to live under water
1	Absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | water |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
| 2 | **absent** |  |  | power |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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