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title: From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate? Exam question 4 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

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From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** minstrel · **What happens:** do, originate · **To what, where:** minstrel, region

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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/960-pg27200-part171/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e4:1
# text = From which region does the minstrel of the dream originate?
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	originate	originate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the minstrel |  | which region |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **originate** | infinitive | the minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the dream | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e4:o1:1
# text = The north
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	north	north	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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The far north, the home of the clouds and frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e4:o2:1
# text = The far north, the home of the clouds and frost
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e4:o3:1
# text = The south
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cold land where the northern lights glow over the snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e4:o4:1
# text = A cold land where the northern lights glow over the snow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glow	glow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present | the northern lights |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=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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