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title: State the colour of the bed in which the Princess reposed. — Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen,… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the colour of the bed in which the Princess reposed. Exam question 2 of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…

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State the colour of the bed in which the Princess reposed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** repose · **To what, where:** bed

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» 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/291-pg1597-part18/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e2:1
# text = State the colour of the bed in which the Princess reposed.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reposed	repose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repose** | past | the Princess |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e2:o1:1
# text = silver
1	silver	silver	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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tan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e2:o2:1
# text = tan
1	tan	tan	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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red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e2:o3:1
# text = red
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e2:o4:1
# text = white
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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