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title: At what season of the year does the nocturnal visit to the churchyar… — Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: At what season of the year does the nocturnal visit to the churchyard take place? Exam question 2 of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

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At what season of the year does the nocturnal visit to the churchyard take place?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nocturnal visit · **What happens:** do, take · **To what, where:** nocturnal visit, place, churchyard

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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/809-pg27200-part20/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:e2:1
# text = At what season of the year does the nocturnal visit to the churchyard take place?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the nocturnal visit |  |  | season |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | the nocturnal visit *not said here* | place |  | the churchyard |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to churchyard=Destination |

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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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the start of late autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:e2:o1:1
# text = the start of late autumn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** |  |  | late autumn |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the middle of October

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:e2:o2:1
# text = the middle of October
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
midsummer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:e2:o3:1
# text = midsummer
1	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the beginning of September

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:e2:o4:1
# text = the beginning of September
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** |  |  | September |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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