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title: Which wind did the girl ride in order to reach the North Wind's dwel… — Popular Tales from the Norse, East of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which wind did the girl ride in order to reach the North Wind's dwelling? Exam question 1 of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

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Which wind did the girl ride in order to reach the North Wind's dwelling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** do, ride, reach, dwell · **To what, where:** girl

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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/1420-pg503-part7/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:e1:1
# text = Which wind did the girl ride in order to reach the North Wind's dwelling?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	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	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which wind | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dwell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 West Wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:e1:o1:1
# text = The West Wind
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	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 East

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:e1:o2:1
# text = The East
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The South Wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:e1:o3:1
# text = The South Wind
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	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 warm wind that blew from the south sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:e1:o4:1
# text = The warm wind that blew from the south sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the warm wind |  |  |  |  | from the south sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-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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