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title: To what state does the Flower return while enclosed within the letter? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what state does the Flower return while enclosed within the letter? Exam question 3 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 the 
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

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To what state does the Flower return while enclosed within the letter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** state · **What happens:** do, enclose · **To what, where:** Flower return

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e3:1
# text = To what state does the Flower return while enclosed within the letter?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | state | the Flower return |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Eventuality |
| 2 | **enclose** | participle | state *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within the letter | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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 state of light, as before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e3:o1:1
# text = A state of light, as before
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A state of darkness, as before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e3:o2:1
# text = A state of darkness, as before
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A state of darkness, as before, and silent in the long night of the drawer

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e3:o3:1
# text = A state of darkness, as before, and silent in the long night of the drawer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A state of darkness, as before, cramped and cold inside the envelope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e3:o4:1
# text = A state of darkness, as before, cramped and cold inside the envelope
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cramped	cramped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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

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