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title: Which object was shattered upon its descent to the earth? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object was shattered upon its descent to the earth? Exam question 1 of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

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Which object was shattered upon its descent to the earth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** shatter, descend · **To what, where:** object

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» 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/287-pg1597-part14/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:e1:1
# text = Which object was shattered upon its descent to the earth?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shatter** | past · passive |  | which object |  |  |  | upon object's descent to the earth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **descend** |  | object |  |  |  |  | to the earth | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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 {#o1}

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Mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:e1:o1:1
# text = Mirror
1	Mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The magic mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:e1:o2:1
# text = The magic mirror
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The enchanted glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:e1:o3:1
# text = The enchanted glass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:e1:o4:1
# text = The glass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	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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