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title: What was the principal meteorological condition on the night of the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princ… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal meteorological condition on the night of the stranger's arrival? Exam question 3 of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests…

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What was the principal meteorological condition on the night of the stranger's arrival?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** be, arrive · **To what, where:** principal meteorological condition

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 276 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess: a Prince tests a wet visitor with three peas» 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/276-pg1597-part3/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e3:1
# text = What was the principal meteorological condition on the night of the stranger's arrival?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	meteorological	meteorological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal meteorological condition |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 violent tempest with thunder, lightning, hail and total darkness across the whole kingdom

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e3:o1:1
# text = A violent tempest with thunder, lightning, hail and total darkness across the whole kingdom
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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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 violent tempest with thunder and lightning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e3:o2:1
# text = A violent tempest with thunder and lightning
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A violent tempest with thunder and lightning, which knocked down several old trees near the palace gate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e3:o3:1
# text = A violent tempest with thunder and lightning, which knocked down several old trees near the palace gate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock down** | past | a violent tempest with thunder and lightning | several old trees |  | the palace gate |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tree=Theme near gate=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A violent gale with heavy rain and some distant noise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:276-pg1597-part3:e3:o4:1
# text = A violent gale with heavy rain and some distant noise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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