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title: Which road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the cross… — English Fairy Tales, The King of Engla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the crossroads? Exam question 1 of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

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Which road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the crossroads?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** road, youngest prince · **What happens:** do, take, separate · **To what, where:** crossroads

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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/254-pg14241-part21/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:e1:1
# text = Which road did the youngest prince take upon separating at the crossroads?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	separating	separate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which road |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the youngest prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **separate** | gerund | the youngest prince *not said here* |  |  | the crossroads |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:e1:o1:1
# text = Left
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:e1:o2:1
# text = The north
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The short road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:e1:o3:1
# text = The short road
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	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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The left road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:e1:o4:1
# text = The left road
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	road	road	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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