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title: Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps? — Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps? Exam question 3 of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

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Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** lose

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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/906-pg27200-part117/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:e3:1
# text = Which object did the Roman child lose upon the marble steps?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · do-support | which object |  |  |  |  | upon the marble steps | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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A doll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:e3:o1:1
# text = A doll
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doll	doll	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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A golden crescent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:e3:o2:1
# text = A golden crescent
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crescent	crescent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A wooden bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:e3:o3:1
# text = A wooden bowl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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An earthen pitcher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:e3:o4:1
# text = An earthen pitcher
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	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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