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title: Specify the name conferred upon Tiny by the spirit of the flowers in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the name conferred upon Tiny by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section. Exam question 4 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 pri
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

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Specify the name conferred upon Tiny by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** specify, confer · **To what, where:** name

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e4:1
# text = Specify the name conferred upon Tiny by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	closing	closing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 name |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **confer** | participle |  | the name *not said here* |  |  |  | upon Tiny; by the spirit of the flowers in the closing section | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Ma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e4:o1:1
# text = Ma
1	Ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Princess Morning Dew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e4:o2:1
# text = Princess Morning Dew
1	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Morning	Morning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dew	Dew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Maia the Blossom Bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e4:o3:1
# text = Maia the Blossom Bride
1	Maia	Maia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Blossom	Blossom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Bride	Bride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Maia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:e4:o4:1
# text = Maia
1	Maia	Maia	PROPN	NNP	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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