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description: By which route do the two figures leave the room in order to reach the rooftop? Exam question 2 of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wit
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

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By which route do the two figures leave the room in order to reach the rooftop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two figures · **What happens:** do, leave, reach · **To what, where:** room, order, rooftop

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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/974-pg27200-part185/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:e2:1
# text = By which route do the two figures leave the room in order to reach the rooftop?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rooftop	rooftop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the two figures *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by which route | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | present | the two figures | the room |  | order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme in order=Location |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the two figures *not said here* | the rooftop |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rooftop=Theme |

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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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the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:e2:o1:1
# text = the door
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the stove and the chimney

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:e2:o2:1
# text = the stove and the chimney
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:e2:o3:1
# text = the window
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	window	window	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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the cupboard and the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:e2:o4:1
# text = the cupboard and the floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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