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description: To what substance is the Snow-daughter reduced at the close of the narrative? Exam question 2 of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Exam question 2 · Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow…

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To what substance is the Snow-daughter reduced at the close of the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, reduce · **To what, where:** Snow daughter, close

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1724 «Gutenberg 640, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son: a snow girl and a fire boy grow up, and their meeting with the King ends in ruin for all three» 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/1724-pg640-part48/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1724-pg640-part48:e2:1
# text = To what substance is the Snow-daughter reduced at the close of the narrative?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Snow daughter |  |  |  | to substance | tree rules |
| 2 | **reduce** | participle |  | the Snow daughter *not said here* |  | the close of the narrative |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |

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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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Mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1724-pg640-part48:e2:o1:1
# text = Mud
1	Mud	mud	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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A puddle of cold water on the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1724-pg640-part48:e2:o2:1
# text = A puddle of cold water on the floor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1724-pg640-part48:e2:o3:1
# text = Ice
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1724-pg640-part48:e2:o4:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	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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