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title: In which country does the narrator state that the Emperor and all hi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: In which country does the narrator state that the Emperor and all his courtiers are Chinamen? Exam question 2 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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In which country does the narrator state that the Emperor and all his courtiers are Chinamen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** courtiers · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** narrator state, country, Chinamen

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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/1742-pg640-part66/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e2:1
# text = In which country does the narrator state that the Emperor and all his courtiers are Chinamen?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Chinamen	chinaman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the narrator state |  | which country |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | his courtiers | Chinamen |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Asia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e2:o1:1
# text = Asia
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e2:o2:1
# text = Japan
1	Japan	Japan	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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Sweden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e2:o3:1
# text = Sweden
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	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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China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e2:o4:1
# text = China
1	China	China	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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