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title: Which phenomenon caused the Turks' slippers to fly upward? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which phenomenon caused the Turks' slippers to fly upward? Exam question 3 of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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Which phenomenon caused the Turks' slippers to fly upward?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** phenomenon · **What happens:** cause, fly · **To what, where:** slippers

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:e3:1
# text = Which phenomenon caused the Turks' slippers to fly upward?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Turks	turk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | which phenomenon | the Turks's slippers |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition slipper=Patient |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | which phenomenon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the great display of fireworks and rockets lit up the whole night sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:e3:o1:1
# text = the great display of fireworks and rockets lit up the whole night sky
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit up** | participle | fireworks and rockets *not said here* | the whole night sky |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **display** |  |  | fireworks and rockets |  |  |  |  | nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the bright moonlight over the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:e3:o2:1
# text = the bright moonlight over the sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	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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the display of fireworks that burst in the sky over the city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:e3:o3:1
# text = the display of fireworks that burst in the sky over the city
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | present | the display of fireworks |  |  | the sky |  | over the city | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
| 2 | **display** |  |  | fireworks |  |  |  |  | nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the display of fireworks in the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:e3:o4:1
# text = the display of fireworks in the sky
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **display** |  |  | fireworks in the sky |  |  |  |  | nom display «communication 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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