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title: By what name did the spirit of the flower determine that Thumbelina… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what name did the spirit of the flower determine that Thumbelina should henceforth be known? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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By what name did the spirit of the flower determine that Thumbelina should henceforth be known?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, know · **To what, where:** spirit, Thumbelina

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e4:1
# text = By what name did the spirit of the flower determine that Thumbelina should henceforth be known?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	determine	determine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
12	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the spirit of the flower determine |  |  |  | by name | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | should · passive |  | Thumbelina |  |  |  | henceforth *property* | tree rules |

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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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Dew Drop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e4:o1:1
# text = Dew Drop
1	Dew	Dew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Drop	Drop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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May Blossom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e4:o2:1
# text = May Blossom
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	Blossom	blossom	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blossom** | may |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spring Daisy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e4:o3:1
# text = Spring Daisy
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bloom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:e4:o4:1
# text = Bloom
1	Bloom	bloom	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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