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title: What position did the abbot grant Vassili within the monastery? — Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonde… · tree and pragmatics
description: What position did the abbot grant Vassili within the monastery? Exam question 3 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 3 · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

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What position did the abbot grant Vassili within the monastery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** position · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** abbot grant

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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/1754-pg641-part5/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:e3:1
# text = What position did the abbot grant Vassili within the monastery?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	position	position	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	abbot	abbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | position | the abbot grant |  |  |  | within the monastery | tree rules |

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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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bell ringer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:e3:o1:1
# text = bell ringer
1	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ringer	ringer	NOUN	NN	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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gate keeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:e3:o2:1
# text = gate keeper
1	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	keeper	keeper	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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keeper of the vestments and sacred robes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:e3:o3:1
# text = keeper of the vestments and sacred robes
1	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vestments	vestment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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wardrobe keeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:e3:o4:1
# text = wardrobe keeper
1	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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