--- title: To what location had the Swallow's companions departed before his ar… — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics description: To what location had the Swallow's companions departed before his arrival in the city? Exam question 4 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 dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2031-pg902-part1/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2031-pg902-part1/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1… To what location had the Swallow's companions departed before his arrival in the city? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** location · **What happens:** have, depart, arrive · **To what, where:** companions, city This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e4:1 # text = To what location had the Swallow's companions departed before his arrival in the city? 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 3 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Swallow Swallow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | location | the Swallow's companions | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **depart** | participle | | the Swallow's companions *not said here* | | | before location's arrival in the city | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **arrive** | | location | | | the city | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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} The city of Rome ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e4:o1:1 # text = The city of Rome 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Africa ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e4:o2:1 # text = Africa 1 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The island of Crete ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e4:o3:1 # text = The island of Crete 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Crete Crete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The land of Egypt ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:e4:o4:1 # text = The land of Egypt 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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