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title: Which month is described as keeping its summer wardrobe in a box? — Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which month is described as keeping its summer wardrobe in a box? Exam question 4 of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

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Which month is described as keeping its summer wardrobe in a box?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** describe, keep · **To what, where:** month, summer wardrobe, box

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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/886-pg27200-part97/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:e4:1
# text = Which month is described as keeping its summer wardrobe in a box?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which month |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | its summer wardrobe |  | a box |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wardrobe=Theme in box=Location |

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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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June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:e4:o1:1
# text = June
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	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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August

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:e4:o2:1
# text = August
1	August	August	PROPN	NNP	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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April

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:e4:o3:1
# text = April
1	April	April	PROPN	NNP	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 frivolous month of spring showers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:886-pg27200-part97:e4:o4:1
# text = the frivolous month of spring showers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frivolous	frivolous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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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