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title: On what surface did the old clock's weight come to rest when the chi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics
description: On what surface did the old clock's weight come to rest when the child was removed? Exam question 2 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

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On what surface did the old clock's weight come to rest when the child was removed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, come, rest, remove · **To what, where:** weight, surface, child

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e2:1
# text = On what surface did the old clock's weight come to rest when the child was removed?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the old clock's weight |  | what surface |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **remove** | past · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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dirt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e2:o1:1
# text = dirt
1	dirt	dirt	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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the hearth stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e2:o2:1
# text = the hearth stones
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e2:o3:1
# text = the floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e2:o4:1
# text = bed
1	bed	bed	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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