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title: Which newspaper reported the wedding of the Princess? — Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which newspaper reported the wedding of the Princess? Exam question 4 of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 4 · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

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Which newspaper reported the wedding of the Princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** newspaper · **What happens:** report, wed · **To what, where:** wedding, Princess

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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/639-pg23661-part7/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:e4:1
# text = Which newspaper reported the wedding of the Princess?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past | which newspaper | the wedding of the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient |
| 2 | **wed** |  |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the Rotundia Times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:e4:o1:1
# text = the Rotundia Times
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Times	Times	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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the Times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:e4:o2:1
# text = the Times
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Times	time	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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the Royal Gazette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:e4:o3:1
# text = the Royal Gazette
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Gazette	Gazette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Daily Herald

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:e4:o4:1
# text = the Daily Herald
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Daily	Daily	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	_
3	Herald	Herald	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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