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title: What object did the old toad remove from the leaf before she departed? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did the old toad remove from the leaf before she departed? Exam question 4 of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

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What object did the old toad remove from the leaf before she departed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, depart · **To what, where:** old toad remove, leaf

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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/882-pg27200-part93/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:e4:1
# text = What object did the old toad remove from the leaf before she departed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	remove	remove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | object | the old toad remove |  | the leaf |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | past | object |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 elegant little bed woven from silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:e4:o1:1
# text = The elegant little bed woven from silk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | participle |  | the elegant little bed *not said here* |  | silk |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from silk=Trajectory |

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

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The elegant little bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:e4:o2:1
# text = The elegant little bed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bed	bed	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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The elegant little bed the toad coveted most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:e4:o3:1
# text = The elegant little bed the toad coveted most
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	coveted	covet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **covet** | past | the elegant little bed | most |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot most=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The pretty walnut bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:e4:o4:1
# text = The pretty walnut bed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bed	bed	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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