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title: What did the old master request the prince to extend in greeting? — Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the old master request the prince to extend in greeting? Exam question 3 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

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What did the old master request the prince to extend in greeting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old master · **What happens:** do, request, extend · **To what, where:** prince, greeting

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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/1765-pg641-part16/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e3:1
# text = What did the old master request the prince to extend in greeting?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	request	request	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** | present | the old master |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 3 | **extend** | to-infinitive | the old master *not said here* |  |  | greeting |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greeting=Location |

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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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his cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e3:o1:1
# text = his cap
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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his hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e3:o2:1
# text = his hand
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hand	hand	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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his purse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e3:o3:1
# text = his purse
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	purse	purse	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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the prince to kneel and kiss his ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1765-pg641-part16:e3:o4:1
# text = the prince to kneel and kiss his ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	kneel	kneel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | infinitive |  | his ring |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Co-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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