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title: Which vessel did the Princess permit the third son to employ in prep… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which vessel did the Princess permit the third son to employ in preparing the fowl? Exam question 4 of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

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Which vessel did the Princess permit the third son to employ in preparing the fowl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** vessel · **What happens:** do, employ, prepare · **To what, where:** Princess permit, fowl

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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/1748-pg640-part72/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:e4:1
# text = Which vessel did the Princess permit the third son to employ in preparing the fowl?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	permit	permit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which vessel | the Princess permit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **employ** | to-infinitive | which vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | which vessel *not said here* | the fowl |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the big iron pot from the palace kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:e4:o1:1
# text = the big iron pot from the palace kitchen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a copper bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:e4:o2:1
# text = a copper bowl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the wooden shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:e4:o3:1
# text = the wooden shoe
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shoe	shoe	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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the old wooden shoe that had been thrown into the ditch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:e4:o4:1
# text = the old wooden shoe that had been thrown into the ditch
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old wooden shoe |  |  |  | into the ditch *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into ditch=Result |

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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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