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description: In the passage, to what is the Champ de Mars compared when it is described as a table laid for a festival? Exam question 3 of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» of the books course of Mova's prim
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by…

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In the passage, to what is the Champ de Mars compared when it is described as a table laid for a festival?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Champ Mars · **What happens:** be, compare, describe, lay · **To what, where:** passage, Mars, table

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 815 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 26: the oak is struck by lightning, and the Dryad hears of the Paris Exhibition and its doom» 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/815-pg27200-part26/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:e3:1
# text = In the passage, to what is the Champ de Mars compared when it is described as a table laid for a festival?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Champ	Champ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the passage |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | past | the Champ Mars |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** | present · passive |  | Mars |  |  |  | as a table | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as table=Attribute |
| 4 | **lay** | participle |  | a table *not said here* |  |  |  | for a festival | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for festival=Beneficiary |

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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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A banquet on a summer night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:e3:o1:1
# text = A banquet on a summer night
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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A great table on Christmas Eve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:e3:o2:1
# text = A great table on Christmas Eve
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A grand dinner for the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:e3:o3:1
# text = A grand dinner for the king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:815-pg27200-part26:e3:o4:1
# text = A table
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	table	table	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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