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title: Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, ac… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, according to the boundary post's method of counting? Exam question 1 of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» of the books course of Mova
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…

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Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, according to the boundary post's method of counting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swiftness, method · **What happens:** award, run, accord, count · **To what, where:** animal

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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/956-pg27200-part167/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:956-pg27200-part167:e1:1
# text = Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, according to the boundary post's method of counting?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	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	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **award** | present · passive |  | which animal |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal prize=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | swiftness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord the boundary post's method | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count** | gerund | the boundary post's method *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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The snail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:956-pg27200-part167:e1:o1:1
# text = The snail
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The swallow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:956-pg27200-part167:e1:o2:1
# text = The swallow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swallow	swallow	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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The fly, who claimed he overtook a hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:956-pg27200-part167:e1:o3:1
# text = The fly, who claimed he overtook a hare
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the fly |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overtake** | past | the fly | a hare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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The hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:956-pg27200-part167:e1:o4:1
# text = The hare
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	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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