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title: Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their dance? Exam question 4 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

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Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their dance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** surface, bride, their · **What happens:** do, perform, dance · **To what, where:** master builder, dance

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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/987-pg27200-part198/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e4:1
# text = Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their dance?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	builder	builder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | surface | the master builder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | present | surface's bride | their dance |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A floor covered with lime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e4:o1:1
# text = A floor covered with lime
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | a floor *not said here* |  |  |  | with lime | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lime=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stone tiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e4:o2:1
# text = Stone tiles
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Bare earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e4:o3:1
# text = Bare earth
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	earth	earth	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 floor covered with dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e4:o4:1
# text = A floor covered with dust
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | a floor *not said here* |  |  |  | with dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=Theme |

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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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