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title: What country sent the book, like the posh one? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: What country sent the book, like the posh one? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

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What country sent the book, like the posh one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** book

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1743-pg640-part67/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t12:1
# text = What country sent the book, like the posh one?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	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	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | country | the book |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Destination book=Theme |

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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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A far-off island nation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t12:o1:1
# text = A far-off island nation
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	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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China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t12:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t12:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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The Chinese Empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t12:o4:1
# text = The Chinese Empire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	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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