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description: Which road did Ivan take in preference to the new road when journeying home? Exam question 1 of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

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Which road did Ivan take in preference to the new road when journeying home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** road · **What happens:** take in, journey · **To what, where:** preference, new road

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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/2016-pg7885-part35/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:e1:1
# text = Which road did Ivan take in preference to the new road when journeying home?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take in** | past · do-support | which road | preference |  | the new road |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent preference=Theme to road=Destination |
| 2 | **journey** | gerund | which road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the old road, which he kept to throughout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:e1:o1:1
# text = the old road, which he kept to throughout
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	throughout	throughout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the old road |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throughout** | to-infinitive | the old road *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the wide river road through the hills, which he took all the way to the lord's gate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:e1:o2:1
# text = the wide river road through the hills, which he took all the way to the lord's gate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the wide river road through the hills | all way |  | the lord's gate |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to gate=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the new road, which he took at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:e1:o3:1
# text = the new road, which he took at once
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the new road |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at once=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the new road, which he had been told was faster and shorter than the old one

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:e1:o4:1
# text = the new road, which he had been told was faster and shorter than the old one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the new road |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | than the old one | tree rules |

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