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title: Which entity is designated as the narrator of the present excerpt? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which entity is designated as the narrator of the present excerpt? Exam question 1 of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Which entity is designated as the narrator of the present excerpt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** designate · **To what, where:** entity

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e1:1
# text = Which entity is designated as the narrator of the present excerpt?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	entity	entity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	excerpt	excerpt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | present · passive |  | which entity |  |  |  | as the narrator of the present excerpt | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as narrator=Attribute |

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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 Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e1:o1:1
# text = The Moon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	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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Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e1:o2:1
# text = Sun
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	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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The narrator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e1:o3:1
# text = The narrator
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	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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Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e1:o4:1
# text = Earth
1	Earth	Earth	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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