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title: exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post-chaise? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post-chaise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** exam · **What happens:** describe, travel · **To what, where:** post-chaise

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e4:1
# text = exam: Which creature does Ajola describe as travelling inside a post-chaise?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Ajola	Ajola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	post-chaise	post-chaise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · do-support | exam |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | exam *not said here* |  |  | a post-chaise |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside post-chaise=Trajectory |

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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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A little old dog that talks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e4:o1:1
# text = A little old dog that talks
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | a little old dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A little dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e4:o2:1
# text = A little dog
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	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 cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e4:o3:1
# text = A cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The postilion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:e4:o4:1
# text = The postilion
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	postilion	postilion	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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