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title: Which object did the angel carry in place of the sharp sword? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the angel carry in place of the sharp sword? Exam question 3 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

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Which object did the angel carry in place of the sharp sword?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** place

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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/958-pg27200-part169/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e3:1
# text = Which object did the angel carry in place of the sharp sword?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · do-support | which object |  |  | place of the sharp sword |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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A bunch of red flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e3:o1:1
# text = A bunch of red flowers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A silver cup of wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e3:o2:1
# text = A silver cup of wine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e3:o3:1
# text = A sword
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	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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A green branch bearing roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e3:o4:1
# text = A green branch bearing roses
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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