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title: test: who even are the daughters of the sunbeam? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: who even are the daughters of the sunbeam? Test 9 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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test: who even are the daughters of the sunbeam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** daughters

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This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t9:1
# text = test: who even are the daughters of the sunbeam?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | test and the daughters | the daughters |  |  |  | of the sunbeam | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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kind forest sprites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t9:o1:1
# text = kind forest sprites
1	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sprites	sprite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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good spirits of nature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t9:o2:1
# text = good spirits of nature
1	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sunbeam fairies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t9:o3:1
# text = sunbeam fairies
1	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nature spirits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t9:o4:1
# text = nature spirits
1	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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