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title: Which action of Celandine most directly demonstrates her departure f… — Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which action of Celandine most directly demonstrates her departure from the Leafy Palace? Exam question 3 of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is sco…

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Which action of Celandine most directly demonstrates her departure from the Leafy Palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** action, Celandine · **What happens:** demonstrate, act, depart · **To what, where:** departure, Leafy Palace

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1884 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 21: Celandine is scorned and meets a grumpy old hag» 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/1884-pg7277-part21/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1884-pg7277-part21:e3:1
# text = Which action of Celandine most directly demonstrates her departure from the Leafy Palace?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	demonstrates	demonstrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | present | which action of Celandine | action's departure |  | the Leafy Palace |  | directly *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot departure=Topic |
| 2 | **act** |  | Celandine |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **depart** |  | action |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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She sends a letter to the King and Queen before going

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1884-pg7277-part21:e3:o1:1
# text = She sends a letter to the King and Queen before going
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | She | a letter | the King and Queen |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to king=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen, and walks off alone into the night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1884-pg7277-part21:e3:o2:1
# text = She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen, and walks off alone into the night
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bid** | gerund | She *not said here* | farewell |  |  |  | to the King and Queen | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk off** | present | She *not said here* |  |  |  | night | alone *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1884-pg7277-part21:e3:o3:1
# text = She leaves without bidding farewell to the King and Queen
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bid** | gerund | She *not said here* | farewell |  |  |  | to the King and Queen | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She leaves the valley at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1884-pg7277-part21:e3:o4:1
# text = She leaves the valley at dawn
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | She | the valley |  |  | dawn |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Theme |

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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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