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title: Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden soil? Exam question 1 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

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Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden soil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, young wife · **What happens:** do, discover, dig · **To what, where:** young wife, garden soil

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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/300-pg1597-part27/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e1:1
# text = Which object did the young wife discover while digging in the garden soil?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	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	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	discover	discover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the young wife |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 2 | **discover** | present | the young wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dig** | gerund | which object *not said here* |  |  | the garden soil |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=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 {#o1}

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the tin soldier of a long-dead boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e1:o1:1
# text = the tin soldier of a long-dead boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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the pewter soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e1:o2:1
# text = the pewter soldier
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pewter	pewter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	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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a small lead figure from the old well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e1:o3:1
# text = a small lead figure from the old well
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the wooden spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e1:o4:1
# text = the wooden spoon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	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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