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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

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Specify the object that was shining over the sleeping infant in the subsequent narrative.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, object · **What happens:** specify, shine · **To what, where:** object, sleeping

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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/867-pg27200-part78/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:e4:1
# text = Specify the object that was shining over the sleeping infant in the subsequent narrative.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the object |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past · progressive | the object |  |  | the sleeping |  | infant *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sleeping=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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Moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:e4:o1:1
# text = Moonlight
1	Moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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A net of shining stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:e4:o2:1
# text = A net of shining stars
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | a net *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:e4:o3:1
# text = A star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	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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A cloud of golden dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:e4:o4:1
# text = A cloud of golden dust
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** |  |  | golden dust |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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