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description: Which of the following expressions denotes the frost that coats the trees in the morning? Exam question 3 of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

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Which of the following expressions denotes the frost that coats the trees in the morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** frost · **What happens:** follow, denote, coat · **To what, where:** frost, trees

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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/977-pg27200-part188/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:e3:1
# text = Which of the following expressions denotes the frost that coats the trees in the morning?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	expressions	expression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
6	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	coats	coat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | present |  | the frost |  |  |  | of the following expressions | tree rules |
| 3 | **coat** | present | the frost | the trees |  |  | morning |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=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 {#o1}

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white dew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:e3:o1:1
# text = white dew
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the frozen morning mist of the wide country fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:e3:o2:1
# text = the frozen morning mist of the wide country fields
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mist** |  |  | the wide country fields |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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

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hoar frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:e3:o3:1
# text = hoar frost
1	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	frost	frost	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 thick white hoar frost on every branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:e3:o4:1
# text = a thick white hoar frost on every branch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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