--- title: According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill:… · tree and pragmatics description: According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses to marry unless she is permitted to go to Norway? Exam question 3 of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» of the books course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/823-pg27200-part34/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/823-pg27200-part34/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin… According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses to marry unless she is permitted to go to Norway? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** text, one · **What happens:** accord, be, refuse, not marry, permit, go · **To what, where:** one, she, Norway This is exam question 3 of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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/823-pg27200-part34/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:e3:1 # text = According to the text, which elfin daughter is the one who refuses to marry unless she is permitted to go to Norway? 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 7 elfin elfin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the text | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **refuse** | present | the one | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **marry** | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **permit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | she | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | Norway | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to norway=Initial\_Location | 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} The seventh daughter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:e3:o1:1 # text = The seventh daughter 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The third ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:e3:o2:1 # text = The third 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The fourth daughter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:e3:o3:1 # text = The fourth daughter 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The sixth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:e3:o4:1 # text = The sixth 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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