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title: To what place does the maiden invite the young prince in the narrati… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what place does the maiden invite the young prince in the narrative? Exam question 2 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

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To what place does the maiden invite the young prince in the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** place · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** maiden invite

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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/1983-pg7885-part2/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e2:1
# text = To what place does the maiden invite the young prince in the narrative?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | place | the maiden invite |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invite=Eventuality |

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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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the Hall of Golden Song, Tara

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e2:o1:1
# text = the Hall of Golden Song, Tara
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Plain of Sweet Rest, Tara

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e2:o2:1
# text = the Plain of Sweet Rest, Tara
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sweet	Sweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Rest	Rest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e2:o3:1
# text = the sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:e2:o4:1
# text = the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Plain	Plain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Pleasure	Pleasure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Moy	Moy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	Mell	Mell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
```

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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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