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title: On which day did the young girl perish from the cold, according to t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics
description: On which day did the young girl perish from the cold, according to the text? Exam question 1 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

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On which day did the young girl perish from the cold, according to the text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** young girl · **What happens:** do, perish, accord · **To what, where:** cold

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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/306-pg1597-part33/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e1:1
# text = On which day did the young girl perish from the cold, according to the text?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	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	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **perish** | present | the young girl |  |  | the cold and the text |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from cold=Causer |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the last day of the old year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e1:o1:1
# text = the last day of the old year
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Christmas Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e1:o2:1
# text = Christmas Day
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	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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midwinter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e1:o3:1
# text = midwinter
1	midwinter	midwinter	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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the first day of spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e1:o4:1
# text = the first day of spring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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