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title: Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak? Exam question 4 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** depart, continue, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» 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/2040-pg902-part10/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e4:1
# text = Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past | which creature |  |  |  |  | upon the Rocket | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | gerund | which creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Moth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e4:o1:1
# text = The Moth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moth	moth	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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The Bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e4:o2:1
# text = The Bee
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bee	bee	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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The Dragon-fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e4:o3:1
# text = The Dragon-fly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Butterfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:e4:o4:1
# text = The Butterfly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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