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title: Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to purs… — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to pursue? Exam question 3 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 3 · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

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Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to pursue?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** branch, Student · **What happens:** do, resolve, pursue

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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/2034-pg902-part4/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e3:1
# text = Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to pursue?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Student	Student	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	resolve	resolve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which branch of learning |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resolve** | present | the Student |  |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pursue** | to-infinitive | the Student *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Chemistry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e3:o1:1
# text = Chemistry
1	Chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Astronomy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e3:o2:1
# text = Astronomy
1	Astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Metaphysics

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e3:o3:1
# text = Metaphysics
1	Metaphysics	metaphysic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Practical history and the study of law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e3:o4:1
# text = Practical history and the study of law
1	Practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** |  |  | law |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: 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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