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title: What characteristic governing principle of the household is attribut… — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Win… · tree and pragmatics
description: What characteristic governing principle of the household is attributed by the Wind to its inhabitants? Exam question 3 of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

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What characteristic governing principle of the household is attributed by the Wind to its inhabitants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** characteristic, Wind · **What happens:** govern, attribute · **To what, where:** principle, characteristic

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» 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/1027-pg27200-part238/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:e3:1
# text = What characteristic governing principle of the household is attributed by the Wind to its inhabitants?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	principle	principle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | gerund | what characteristic *not said here* | principle of the household |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent principle=Theme |
| 2 | **attribute** | present · passive | the Wind to characteristic's inhabitants | what characteristic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Pride alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:e3:o1:1
# text = Pride alone
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:e3:o2:1
# text = Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display
1	Ostentation	ostentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thrift, humility, and quiet hard work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:e3:o3:1
# text = Thrift, humility, and quiet hard work
1	Thrift	thrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Silence, fear, grief, and sorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:e3:o4:1
# text = Silence, fear, grief, and sorrow
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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