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title: What was the title of the poem recited at the King Street theatre? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the title of the poem recited at the King Street theatre? Exam question 3 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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What was the title of the poem recited at the King Street theatre?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, recite · **To what, where:** title, poem, Street theatre

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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/280-pg1597-part7/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e3:1
# text = What was the title of the poem recited at the King Street theatre?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the title |  |  |  | of the poem | tree rules |
| 2 | **recite** | participle |  | the poem *not said here* |  | the Street theatre |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Aunt's Spectacles of Fortune and Fate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e3:o1:1
# text = The Aunt's Spectacles of Fortune and Fate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Spectacles	Spectacles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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My Aunt's Spectacles and the Strange Nephew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e3:o2:1
# text = My Aunt's Spectacles and the Strange Nephew
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Spectacles	Spectacles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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My Aunt's Spectacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e3:o3:1
# text = My Aunt's Spectacles
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Spectacles	Spectacles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Shoes of Fortune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e3:o4:1
# text = The Shoes of Fortune
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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