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title: On which festival night did Ring and Snati arrive at the troll-dwell… — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: On which festival night did Ring and Snati arrive at the troll-dwelling cave? Exam question 3 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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On which festival night did Ring and Snati arrive at the troll-dwelling cave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** do, arrive, dwell · **To what, where:** dwelling cave

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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/1732-pg640-part56/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e3:1
# text = On which festival night did Ring and Snati arrive at the troll-dwelling cave?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
3	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | Ring and Snati |  |  | the dwelling cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **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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Midsummer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e3:o1:1
# text = Midsummer
1	Midsummer	midsummer	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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New Year's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e3:o2:1
# text = New Year's Day
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	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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Christmas Eve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e3:o3:1
# text = Christmas Eve
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the longest night of the whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:e3:o4:1
# text = the longest night of the whole year
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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