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title: In what condition does the narrative describe the marriage lamps upo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what condition does the narrative describe the marriage lamps upon Helga's return? Exam question 3 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

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In what condition does the narrative describe the marriage lamps upon Helga's return?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrative, Helga · **What happens:** describe, return · **To what, where:** marriage lamps, condition

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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/897-pg27200-part108/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e3:1
# text = In what condition does the narrative describe the marriage lamps upon Helga's return?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · do-support | the narrative | the marriage lamps |  | what condition |  | upon Helga's return | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme |
| 2 | **return** |  | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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they had been lit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e3:o1:1
# text = they had been lit
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | past · perfect · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they had been extinguished by the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e3:o2:1
# text = they had been extinguished by the wind
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extinguish** | past · perfect · passive | the wind | they |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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

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they had been extinguished

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e3:o3:1
# text = they had been extinguished
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extinguish** | past · perfect · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they were still burning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:e3:o4:1
# text = they were still burning
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · progressive | they |  |  |  | still |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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