--- title: What was the youth's occupation within the royal household at the ti… — Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the youth's occupation within the royal household at the time of his sister's removal? Exam question 4 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1576-pg540-part73/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/) / [Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1576-pg540-part73/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth… What was the youth's occupation within the royal household at the time of his sister's removal? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** be, remove · **To what, where:** occupation This is exam question 4 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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/1576-pg540-part73/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:e4:1 # text = What was the youth's occupation within the royal household at the time of his sister's removal? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 occupation occupation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 within within ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 removal removal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the youth's occupation | | | time | within the royal household | tree rules | | 2 | **remove** | | his sister | | | | | | nom removal «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 stable-boy in the royal stables ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:e4:o1:1 # text = A stable-boy in the royal stables 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Gardener ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:e4:o2:1 # text = Gardener 1 Gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Footman ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:e4:o3:1 # text = Footman 1 Footman footman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Stable-boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:e4:o4:1 # text = Stable-boy 1 Stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 boy boy 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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