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title: What inscription was placed upon the monument of snow? — Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What inscription was placed upon the monument of snow? Exam question 2 of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

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What inscription was placed upon the monument of snow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** place · **To what, where:** inscription, monument

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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/931-pg27200-part142/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:e2:1
# text = What inscription was placed upon the monument of snow?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | what inscription |  | the monument of snow |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon monument=Destination |

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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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Quicker than snow melts, thou brought help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:e2:o1:1
# text = Quicker than snow melts, thou brought help
1	Quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | past | thou | help |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent help=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help to my people in the famine!

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:e2:o2:1
# text = Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help to my people in the famine!
1	Quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	nsubj	_	_
2	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | Quicker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | thou | help | my people in the famine |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent help=Theme to people=Destination |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:e2:o3:1
# text = Quicker than this melts didst thou bring help!
1	Quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	nsubj	_	_
2	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	didst	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | Quicker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | thou | help |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent help=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thou brought help quicker than this melts!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:e2:o4:1
# text = Thou brought help quicker than this melts!
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Thou | help |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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