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title: What token was the Captain required to bring back as evidence of the… — Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Mira… · tree and pragmatics
description: What token was the Captain required to bring back as evidence of the execution? Exam question 2 of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 2 · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

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What token was the Captain required to bring back as evidence of the execution?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** token · **What happens:** be, bring back, evidence · **To what, where:** execution

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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/1464-pg503-part51/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:e2:1
# text = What token was the Captain required to bring back as evidence of the execution?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | what token |  |  |  |  | require *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | what token *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as evidence of the execution | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **evidence** |  |  | the execution |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the Princess's heart and tongue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:e2:o1:1
# text = the Princess's heart and tongue
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Princess's heart, tongue and the dog's collar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:e2:o2:1
# text = the Princess's heart, tongue and the dog's collar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the Princess's golden crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:e2:o3:1
# text = the Princess's golden crown
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Princess's heart and tongue wrapped in silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:e2:o4:1
# text = the Princess's heart and tongue wrapped in silk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | participle |  | the Princess's heart and tongue *not said here* |  | silk |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in silk=Destination |

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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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