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title: Which plant did the sister place the head beneath, in her chamber? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which plant did the sister place the head beneath, in her chamber? Exam question 4 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 qu
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

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Which plant did the sister place the head beneath, in her chamber?

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

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e4:1
# text = Which plant did the sister place the head beneath, in her chamber?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plant	plant	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	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which plant | the sister place |  |  |  | the head *obl:unmarked*; beneath *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |

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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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a rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e4:o1:1
# text = a rose
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a violet bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e4:o2:1
# text = a violet bush
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violet	violet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	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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a leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e4:o3:1
# text = a leaf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	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}

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a jasmine twig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:e4:o4:1
# text = a jasmine twig
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	twig	twig	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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