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title: Innit, why did the Prince even leave home in the first place? — Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, why did the Prince even leave home in the first place? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

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Innit, why did the Prince even leave home in the first place?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** first place

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1934-pg7277-part71/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t13:1
# text = Innit, why did the Prince even leave home in the first place?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | in the first place *result*; Innit *vocative*; home *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result |

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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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cos the silver apples went missing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t13:o1:1
# text = cos the silver apples went missing
1	cos	cos	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the silver apples |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cos the golden apples got nicked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t13:o2:1
# text = cos the golden apples got nicked
1	cos	cos	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past · passive |  | the golden apples |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cos the golden apples from the Emperor's orchard got nicked and nobody could find out who did it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t13:o3:1
# text = cos the golden apples from the Emperor's orchard got nicked and nobody could find out who did it
1	cos	cos	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cos** | imperative | you *not said here* | the golden apples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past · passive |  |  |  | the Emperor's orchard |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
| 3 | **find out** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | past |  | orchard |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cos his dad told him to

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t13:o4:1
# text = cos his dad told him to
1	cos	co	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | his dad |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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