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title: What was the nature of the gift which enabled Thumbelina to travel f… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the gift which enabled Thumbelina to travel from flower to flower? Exam question 3 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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What was the nature of the gift which enabled Thumbelina to travel from flower to flower?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nature, gift · **What happens:** be, enable, travel · **To what, where:** Thumbelina, flower

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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/1742-pg640-part66/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e3:1
# text = What was the nature of the gift which enabled Thumbelina to travel from flower to flower?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nature of the gift |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enable** | past | the gift | Thumbelina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | the gift *not said here* |  |  | flower |  | to flower | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to flower=Destination |

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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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a cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e3:o1:1
# text = a cloak
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a pair of wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e3:o2:1
# text = a pair of wings
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e3:o3:1
# text = wings
1	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a golden necklace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e3:o4:1
# text = a golden necklace
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	necklace	necklace	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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