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title: From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive? Exam question 3 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

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From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, derive · **To what, where:** spirit, tree

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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/872-pg27200-part83/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e3:1
# text = From which tree does the elder-tree mother's spirit derive?
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the tree mother's spirit |  | which tree |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **derive** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the beech

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e3:o1:1
# text = the beech
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beech	beech	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the elder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e3:o2:1
# text = the elder
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	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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oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e3:o3:1
# text = oak
1	oak	oak	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 ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e3:o4:1
# text = the ash
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ash	ash	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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