--- title: With reference to the passage, state which creature was destined by… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti… · tree and pragmatics description: With reference to the passage, state which creature was destined by the field-mouse to be the husband of Tiny. Exam question 1 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» of the books --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/884-pg27200-part95/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/884-pg27200-part95/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th… With reference to the passage, state which creature was destined by the field-mouse to be the husband of Tiny. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** field mouse · **What happens:** destine, be · **To what, where:** creature, husband This is exam question 1 of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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/884-pg27200-part95/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e1:1 # text = With reference to the passage, state which creature was destined by the field-mouse to be the husband of Tiny. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 reference reference NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 9 det _ _ 9 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 destined destine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Tiny Tiny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **destine** | past · passive | the field mouse | which creature | | | | with reference; to the passage and state | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the field mouse *not said here* | the husband | | | | of Tiny | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} the mole ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e1:o1:1 # text = the mole 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the frog ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e1:o2:1 # text = the frog 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the owl ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e1:o3:1 # text = the owl 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the toad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e1:o4:1 # text = the toad 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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