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description: Which town did the invading forces first capture, according to the narrator's account? Exam question 4 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

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Which town did the invading forces first capture, according to the narrator's account?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** town, narrator · **What happens:** do, accord, account · **To what, where:** invading forces

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» 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/592-pg2306-part28/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e4:1
# text = Which town did the invading forces first capture, according to the narrator's account?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	invading	invading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which town | the invading forces and first capture and the narrator's account |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Eventuality |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  | the narrator |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Atlanta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e4:o1:1
# text = Atlanta
1	Atlanta	Atlanta	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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Macon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e4:o2:1
# text = Macon
1	Macon	macon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the capital city of the state

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e4:o3:1
# text = the capital city of the state
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Savannah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:592-pg2306-part28:e4:o4:1
# text = Savannah
1	Savannah	Savannah	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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**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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