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title: exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden? Exam question 2 of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** exam · **What happens:** characteris · **To what, where:** Ice Maiden

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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/853-pg27200-part64/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e2:1
# text = exam: Which phrase most accurately characterises the Ice Maiden?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | exam and which phrase | the Ice Maiden |  |  |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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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Lady of the frozen lakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e2:o1:1
# text = Lady of the frozen lakes
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cold queen who rules the glaciers of the Alps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e2:o2:1
# text = Cold queen who rules the glaciers of the Alps
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** |  | Cold queen  the glaciers of the Alps and rules |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Empress of the snowfields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e2:o3:1
# text = Empress of the snowfields
1	Empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snowfields	snowfield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Queen of the glaciers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e2:o4:1
# text = Queen of the glaciers
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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