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title: What did the withered leaf serve to demonstrate to the sister? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the withered leaf serve to demonstrate to the sister? Exam question 3 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

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What did the withered leaf serve to demonstrate to the sister?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, wither, demonstrate · **To what, where:** withered leaf serve

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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/821-pg27200-part32/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e3:1
# text = What did the withered leaf serve to demonstrate to the sister?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	serve	serve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the withered leaf serve |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serve=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **demonstrate** | to-infinitive |  | the withered leaf serve *not said here* |  |  |  | to the sister | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=Experiencer |

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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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that her brother was guilty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e3:o1:1
# text = that her brother was guilty
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | her brother |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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that her dream was true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e3:o2:1
# text = that her dream was true
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | her dream |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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that the elf was real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e3:o3:1
# text = that the elf was real
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the elf |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she was right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e3:o4:1
# text = she was right
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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