--- title: To what location did the old woman direct the girl in order to obtai… — Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, p… · tree and pragmatics description: To what location did the old woman direct the girl in order to obtain employment? Exam question 1 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» of the books course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1150-pg3027-part16/e1/) [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/) / [Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1150-pg3027-part16/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal… To what location did the old woman direct the girl in order to obtain employment? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** direct, obtain · **To what, where:** girl, employment This is exam question 1 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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/1150-pg3027-part16/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:e1:1 # text = To what location did the old woman direct the girl in order to obtain employment? 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obl _ _ 3 location location NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 direct direct VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 12 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 fixed _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **direct** | past · do-support | the old woman | the girl | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | employment | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset employment=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} a shop ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:e1:o1:1 # text = a shop 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the farmhouse near the old mill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:e1:o2:1 # text = the farmhouse near the old mill 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmhouse farmhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} a farm at a little distance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:e1:o3:1 # text = a farm at a little distance 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the mill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1150-pg3027-part16:e1:o4:1 # text = the mill 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mill mill 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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