---
title: What is the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season? Exam question 2 of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/e2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/) / e2

# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What is the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** precise nature, girl · **What happens:** be, conduct

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 2 of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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/986-pg27200-part197/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e2:1
# text = What is the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the precise nature of the girl's conduct during the summer season |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conduct** |  | the girl |  |  |  | during the summer season |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent during=obl |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She selected another companion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e2:o1:1
# text = She selected another companion
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past | She | another companion |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She selected another companion, a boy from the village near the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e2:o2:1
# text = She selected another companion, a boy from the village near the mill
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past | She | another companion and a boy |  | the village |  | near the mill | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent companion=Theme from village=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She kept her first companion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e2:o3:1
# text = She kept her first companion
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | She | her first companion |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She selected another companion and forgot all about the first one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e2:o4:1
# text = She selected another companion and forgot all about the first one
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past | She | another companion |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the first one; all *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/e1/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/e3/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/)