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title: What was the nature of the creature which conveyed the Prince to the… — Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the creature which conveyed the Prince to the Green Castle? Exam question 2 of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 2 · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…

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What was the nature of the creature which conveyed the Prince to the Green Castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nature, creature · **What happens:** be, convey · **To what, where:** Prince, Green Castle

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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/1918-pg7277-part55/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:e2:1
# text = What was the nature of the creature which conveyed the Prince to the Green Castle?
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	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 nature of the creature |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **convey** | past | the creature | the Prince | the Green Castle |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to castle=Recipient |

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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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a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:e2:o1:1
# text = a cart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:e2:o2:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a snail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:e2:o3:1
# text = a snail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snail	snail	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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a pony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1918-pg7277-part55:e2:o4:1
# text = a pony
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pony	pony	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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