--- title: Which gift did the parent snails bestow upon the young couple at the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics description: Which gift did the parent snails bestow upon the young couple at their marriage? Exam question 4 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 tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m… Which gift did the parent snails bestow upon the young couple at their marriage? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gift, parent snails, snails · **What happens:** do, bestow, marry This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e4:1 # text = Which gift did the parent snails bestow upon the young couple at their marriage? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 gift gift 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 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 bestow bestow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which gift | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bestow** | present | the parent snails | | | | | upon the young couple at snails's marriage | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** | | snails *= snail* | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} a fine stone house ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e4:o1:1 # text = a fine stone house 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} the whole field of nettles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e4:o2:1 # text = the whole field of nettles 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e4:o3:1 # text = the garden 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the whole forest of burdocks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e4:o4:1 # text = the whole forest of burdocks 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 burdocks burdock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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