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title: What did Karen request the executioner to remove from her body? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Karen request the executioner to remove from her body? Exam question 2 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

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What did Karen request the executioner to remove from her body?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** request, remove · **To what, where:** executioner, body

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e2:1
# text = What did Karen request the executioner to remove from her body?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past · do-support | Karen | the executioner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | the executioner *not said here* |  | Karen's body |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from body=Source |

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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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Her hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e2:o1:1
# text = Her hat
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hat	hat	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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Her arm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e2:o2:1
# text = Her arm
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	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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Her heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e2:o3:1
# text = Her heart
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	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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Her feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e2:o4:1
# text = Her feet
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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