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description: With reference to the passage, which person instructed the five surviving warriors to return their weapons to the scabbards? Exam question 1 of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» o
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# Exam question 1 · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

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With reference to the passage, which person instructed the five surviving warriors to return their weapons to the scabbards?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** instruct, survive, return · **To what, where:** five surviving warriors, weapons, scabbards

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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/2061-pg976-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:e1:1
# text = With reference to the passage, which person instructed the five surviving warriors to return their weapons to the scabbards?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	scabbards	scabbard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past |  | the five surviving warriors |  |  |  | with reference to the passage and which person | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient |
| 2 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | to-infinitive |  | warriors's weapons |  | the scabbards |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme to scabbard=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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Ulysses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = Ulysses
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	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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Ares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = Ares
1	Ares	ar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Europa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = Europa
1	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cadmus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = Cadmus
1	Cadmus	Cadmus	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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