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title: Which character deceives the sexton concerning the chest? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character deceives the sexton concerning the chest? Exam question 3 of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

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Which character deceives the sexton concerning the chest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** character, sexton · **What happens:** deceive, concern · **To what, where:** sexton, chest

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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/1729-pg640-part53/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:e3:1
# text = Which character deceives the sexton concerning the chest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	deceives	deceive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | present | which character | the sexton |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=Patient |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the sexton *not said here* | the chest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chest=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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Big Klaus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:e3:o1:1
# text = Big Klaus
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The shoemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:e3:o2:1
# text = The shoemaker
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The host

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:e3:o3:1
# text = The host
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Little Klaus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:e3:o4:1
# text = Little Klaus
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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