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title: What was the principal provision recovered by the spaniels from the… — Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he w… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal provision recovered by the spaniels from the stranded horse? Exam question 3 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 3 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart…

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What was the principal provision recovered by the spaniels from the stranded horse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** principal provision · **What happens:** be, recover, strand · **To what, where:** principal provision

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice Palace» 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/1893-pg7277-part30/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e3:1
# text = What was the principal provision recovered by the spaniels from the stranded horse?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	stranded	strand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the principal provision |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **recover** | participle |  | the principal provision *not said here* |  |  |  | by the spaniels from the stranded horse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Dried fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e3:o1:1
# text = Dried fish
1	Dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Figs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e3:o2:1
# text = Figs
1	Figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Biscuits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e3:o3:1
# text = Biscuits
1	Biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1893-pg7277-part30:e3:o4:1
# text = Cheese
1	Cheese	cheese	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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