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title: By what route did Napoleon's army cross into the plains of Italy? — Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cin… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what route did Napoleon's army cross into the plains of Italy? Exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

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By what route did Napoleon's army cross into the plains of Italy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** route · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** army cross, plains

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» 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/350-pg18442-part10/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:e4:1
# text = By what route did Napoleon's army cross into the plains of Italy?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | route | Napoleon's army cross |  | the plains of Italy |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Through the Pyrenees by a sandy coastal road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:e4:o1:1
# text = Through the Pyrenees by a sandy coastal road
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pyrenees	Pyrenees	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:e4:o2:1
# text = By sea
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sea	sea	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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Through Spain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:e4:o3:1
# text = Through Spain
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Over the Alps, where no road existed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:e4:o4:1
# text = Over the Alps, where no road existed
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | participle | no road |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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