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title: Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to… — Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to his release? Exam question 1 of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 1 · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

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Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to his release?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** young priest · **What happens:** be

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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/892-pg27200-part103/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:e1:1
# text = Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to his release?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	confined	confine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young priest |  |  |  |  | upon what part of the castle; prior his release; confine *property* | tree rules |

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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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The horse stables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:e1:o1:1
# text = The horse stables
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stables	stable	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stable** | present | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The great upper hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:e1:o2:1
# text = The great upper hall
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hall	hall	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 deep stone cellars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:e1:o3:1
# text = The deep stone cellars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 hanging gallery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:e1:o4:1
# text = The hanging gallery
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hanging	hanging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gallery	gallery	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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