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title: With what emotion does the Swallow initially respond to the statue's… — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: With what emotion does the Swallow initially respond to the statue's request? Exam question 2 of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

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With what emotion does the Swallow initially respond to the statue's request?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** statue · **What happens:** do, swallow, respond, request

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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/2031-pg902-part1/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e2:1
# text = With what emotion does the Swallow initially respond to the statue's request?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	initially	initially	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	respond	respond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with what emotion | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | initially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respond** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the statue's request | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme |
| 4 | **request** |  | the statue |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Joy and delight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e2:o1:1
# text = Joy and delight
1	Joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Reluctance, expressed through his dislike of boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e2:o2:1
# text = Reluctance, expressed through his dislike of boys
1	Reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dislike	dislike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | participle |  | Reluctance *not said here* |  | his dislike of boys |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dislike** |  | his *= he* | boys |  |  |  |  | nom dislike «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Anger at the statue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e2:o3:1
# text = Anger at the statue
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Delight, expressed through his love of the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e2:o4:1
# text = Delight, expressed through his love of the sun
1	Delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | participle |  |  |  | his love of the sun |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** |  | his *= he* | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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