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title: Which object did the youngest son desire, and from which source was… — Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the youngest son desire, and from which source was it obtained? Exam question 2 of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

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Which object did the youngest son desire, and from which source was it obtained?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, obtain · **To what, where:** youngest son desire, source

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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/959-pg27200-part170/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:959-pg27200-part170:e2:1
# text = Which object did the youngest son desire, and from which source was it obtained?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the youngest son desire |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality |
| 2 | **obtain** | past · passive |  | which source |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 toy horn, from a rowan tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:959-pg27200-part170:e2:o1:1
# text = A toy horn, from a rowan tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rowan	rowan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:959-pg27200-part170:e2:o2:1
# text = A flute
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	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 drum, bought at a fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:959-pg27200-part170:e2:o3:1
# text = A drum, bought at a fair
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | participle |  | a drum *not said here* |  | a fair |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A flute, cut from a willow branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:959-pg27200-part170:e2:o4:1
# text = A flute, cut from a willow branch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  | a flute *not said here* |  | a willow branch |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from branch=Location |

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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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