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title: Which island did the fugitives select as their place of refuge? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which island did the fugitives select as their place of refuge? Exam question 4 of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

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Which island did the fugitives select as their place of refuge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** island, fugitives · **What happens:** do, select

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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/1508-pg540-part5/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:e4:1
# text = Which island did the fugitives select as their place of refuge?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	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	5	det	_	_
5	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	select	select	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which island |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **select** | present | the fugitives |  |  |  |  | as fugitives's place of refuge | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as place=Attribute |

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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 woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:e4:o1:1
# text = the woods
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Squirrel Island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = Squirrel Island
1	Squirrel	Squirrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	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 cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = the cave
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	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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Crystal Mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1508-pg540-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = Crystal Mountain
1	Crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	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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