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title: What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's swo… — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's sword? Exam question 2 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

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What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's sword?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, Mayor · **What happens:** do, identify · **To what, where:** sword

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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/2033-pg902-part3/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e2:1
# text = What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's sword?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | present | the Mayor |  |  | the statue's sword |  | as missing | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as missing=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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A gem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e2:o1:1
# text = A gem
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gem	gem	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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The emerald

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e2:o2:1
# text = The emerald
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	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 ruby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e2:o3:1
# text = The ruby
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ruby	ruby	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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The eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:e2:o4:1
# text = The eye
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eye	eye	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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