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title: Which lake is described as glittering in the evening sunlight like a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which lake is described as glittering in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold? Exam question 3 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, w
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

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Which lake is described as glittering in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** describe, glitter · **To what, where:** lake, evening sunlight

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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/842-pg27200-part53/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e3:1
# text = Which lake is described as glittering in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which lake |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  | the evening sunlight |  | like a sheet of molten gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |

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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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lake Como

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e3:o1:1
# text = lake Como
1	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Como	Como	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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lake Bolsena

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e3:o2:1
# text = lake Bolsena
1	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bolsena	Bolsena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lake Maggiore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e3:o3:1
# text = lake Maggiore
1	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Maggiore	Maggiore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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lake Thrasymene

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e3:o4:1
# text = lake Thrasymene
1	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Thrasymene	Thrasymene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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