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title: What was the emotional condition of the protagonist immediately befo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the emotional condition of the protagonist immediately before her death? Exam question 2 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

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What was the emotional condition of the protagonist immediately before her death?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** emotional condition, her · **What happens:** be, condition, die · **To what, where:** protagonist

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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/958-pg27200-part169/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e2:1
# text = What was the emotional condition of the protagonist immediately before her death?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the emotional condition of the protagonist before her death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **condition** |  |  | the protagonist |  |  | before her death |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient before=obl |
| 3 | **die** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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Great fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e2:o1:1
# text = Great fear
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fear	fear	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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Deep sorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e2:o2:1
# text = Deep sorrow
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sorrow	sorrow	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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Utter despair and loss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e2:o3:1
# text = Utter despair and loss
1	Utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Profound peace and joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:e2:o4:1
# text = Profound peace and joy
1	Profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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