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title: Which object did the pupil place beneath his pillow to aid the reten… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the pupil place beneath his pillow to aid the retention of his lesson? Exam question 1 of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished…

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Which object did the pupil place beneath his pillow to aid the retention of his lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, aid, retain · **To what, where:** pupil place, retention, lesson

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 885 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk: Tuk dreams of vanished towns and wakes up knowing his lesson» 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/885-pg27200-part96/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:e1:1
# text = Which object did the pupil place beneath his pillow to aid the retention of his lesson?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
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	6	det	_	_
5	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	retention	retention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the pupil place |  |  |  | beneath object's pillow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |
| 2 | **aid** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | the retention of object's lesson |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retention=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **retain** |  |  | object's lesson |  |  |  |  | nom retention «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 history book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:e1:o1:1
# text = the history book
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	book	book	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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the spelling book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:e1:o2:1
# text = the spelling book
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the geography book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:e1:o3:1
# text = the geography book
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	book	book	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 heavy geography book from his desk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:885-pg27200-part96:e1:o4:1
# text = the heavy geography book from his desk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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