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title: In what manner did the Rocket's father descend to earth? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner did the Rocket's father descend to earth? Exam question 3 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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In what manner did the Rocket's father descend to earth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** do, descend · **To what, where:** manner, earth

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» 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/2039-pg902-part9/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e3:1
# text = In what manner did the Rocket's father descend to earth?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Rocket	Rocket	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | what manner |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **descend** | present | the Rocket's father |  |  | earth |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location |

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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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On a cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e3:o1:1
# text = On a cloud
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	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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On a ribbon of pink light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e3:o2:1
# text = On a ribbon of pink light
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By rocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e3:o3:1
# text = By rocket
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rocket	rocket	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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In a shower of golden rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e3:o4:1
# text = In a shower of golden rain
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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