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description: By what proper name is the figure who shot the poet designated in the tale? Exam question 4 of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

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By what proper name is the figure who shot the poet designated in the tale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proper name, figure · **What happens:** be, shoot, designate · **To what, where:** figure, poet, tale

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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/970-pg27200-part181/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:e4:1
# text = By what proper name is the figure who shot the poet designated in the tale?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | proper name | the figure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the figure | the poet |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme |
| 3 | **designate** | participle |  | the poet *not said here* |  | the tale |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Edmund

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:e4:o1:1
# text = Edmund
1	Edmund	Edmund	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 mischievous child who claimed to be the god of love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:e4:o2:1
# text = The mischievous child who claimed to be the god of love
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the mischievous child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the god |  |  |  | of love | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cupid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:e4:o3:1
# text = Cupid
1	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The boy who called himself Cupid in the tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:e4:o4:1
# text = The boy who called himself Cupid in the tale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the boy | boy |  | the tale |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |

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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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