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title: Which companion did the reindeer leave at the green fields before de… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which companion did the reindeer leave at the green fields before departing? Exam question 2 of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

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Which companion did the reindeer leave at the green fields before departing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** companion, reindeer · **What happens:** do, leave, depart · **To what, where:** green fields

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» 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/1628-pg5615-part17/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e2:1
# text = Which companion did the reindeer leave at the green fields before departing?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	companion	companion	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	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	departing	depart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which companion |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | present | the reindeer |  |  | the green fields |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at field=Location |
| 3 | **depart** | gerund | the reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 old woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e2:o1:1
# text = The old woman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	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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Gerda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e2:o2:1
# text = Gerda
1	Gerda	Gerda	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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Gerda and Kay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e2:o3:1
# text = Gerda and Kay
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	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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Kay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e2:o4:1
# text = Kay
1	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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