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title: What material did the Hyacinths' narrative associate with the three… — Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What material did the Hyacinths' narrative associate with the three maidens' attire? Exam question 3 of lesson 289 «Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old woman's garden asks the flowers about Kay» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

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What material did the Hyacinths' narrative associate with the three maidens' attire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** narrative associate

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 289 «Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old woman's garden asks the flowers about 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/289-pg1597-part16/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:289-pg1597-part16:e3:1
# text = What material did the Hyacinths' narrative associate with the three maidens' attire?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	narrative	narrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	associate	associate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | material | the Hyacinths's narrative associate |  |  |  | with the three maidens's attire | 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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Wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:289-pg1597-part16:e3:o1:1
# text = Wool
1	Wool	wool	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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Cotton of green and gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:289-pg1597-part16:e3:o2:1
# text = Cotton of green and gold
1	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Silk of red, blue, and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:289-pg1597-part16:e3:o3:1
# text = Silk of red, blue, and white
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Red silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:289-pg1597-part16:e3:o4:1
# text = Red silk
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silk	silk	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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