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description: At what moment did the hot tallow fall upon the sleeping Prince's shirt? Exam question 3 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependenc
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# Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

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At what moment did the hot tallow fall upon the sleeping Prince's shirt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** moment, hot tallow · **What happens:** do, fall · **To what, where:** sleeping

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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/1419-pg503-part6/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1419-pg503-part6:e3:1
# text = At what moment did the hot tallow fall upon the sleeping Prince's shirt?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | moment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the hot tallow |  |  | the sleeping and Prince's shirt |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sleeping=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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as he woke up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1419-pg503-part6:e3:o1:1
# text = as he woke up
1	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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when she kissed him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1419-pg503-part6:e3:o2:1
# text = when she kissed him
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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when she lit the lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1419-pg503-part6:e3:o3:1
# text = when she lit the lamp
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past | she | the lamp |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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when she kissed him, just as he was waking up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1419-pg503-part6:e3:o4:1
# text = when she kissed him, just as he was waking up
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **wake up** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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