--- title: By what means does the Flower first leave her place of growth? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: By what means does the Flower first leave her place of growth? Exam question 4 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 question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/e4/) [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/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come… By what means does the Flower first leave her place of growth? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** mean, do, leave · **To what, where:** Flower, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e4:1 # text = By what means does the Flower first leave her place of growth? 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 8 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present | | the Flower | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | | her place of growth | | | | first *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | 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} By the cold frost of the early snow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e4:o1:1 # text = By the cold frost of the early snow 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Being broken off by a child's hand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e4:o2:1 # text = Being broken off by a child's hand 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break off** | gerund · passive | a child's hand | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Being broken off by a child's hand in the early spring garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e4:o3:1 # text = Being broken off by a child's hand in the early spring garden 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break off** | gerund · passive | a child's hand | | | the early spring garden | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} By the wind ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:e4:o4:1 # text = By the wind 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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