--- title: Which conveyance did the company board when they departed along the… — A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: t… · tree and pragmatics description: Which conveyance did the company board when they departed along the Boulevard de Sebastopol? Exam question 1 of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» of the books course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/818-pg27200-part29/e1/) [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/) / [A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/818-pg27200-part29/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol… Which conveyance did the company board when they departed along the Boulevard de Sebastopol? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** conveyance, they · **What happens:** do, depart · **To what, where:** company board, Boulevard Sebastopol This is exam question 1 of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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/818-pg27200-part29/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:e1:1 # text = Which conveyance did the company board when they departed along the Boulevard de Sebastopol? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 conveyance conveyance 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 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 departed depart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 Boulevard Boulevard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 Sebastopol Sebastopol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which conveyance | the company board | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Eventuality | | 2 | **depart** | past | they | | | the Boulevard Sebastopol | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along sebastopol=Initial\_Location | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} an open omnibus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:e1:o1:1 # text = an open omnibus 1 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 omnibus omnibus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a cab ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:e1:o2:1 # text = a cab 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cab cab NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a hack ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:e1:o3:1 # text = a hack 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hack hack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a closed fiacre ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:e1:o4:1 # text = a closed fiacre 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 fiacre fiacre NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | **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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