--- title: Identify the object which the youthful gardener secured from the mai… — pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2:… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the object which the youthful gardener secured from the maid's hiding place and subsequently employed in order to effect his wish. Exam question 2 of lesson 1897 «pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace returns home, and the youngest son meets the hare and the Porcelain Maid --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1897-pg7277-part34/e2/) [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/) / [pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1897-pg7277-part34/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace re… Identify the object which the youthful gardener secured from the maid's hiding place and subsequently employed in order to effect his wish. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, object, maid · **What happens:** identify, gardener, secure, employ, wish · **To what, where:** object, youthful gardener, hiding place, effect This is exam question 2 of lesson 1897 «pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace returns home, and the youngest son meets the hare and the Porcelain Maiden» 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/1897-pg7277-part34/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1897-pg7277-part34:e2:1 # text = Identify the object which the youthful gardener secured from the maid's hiding place and subsequently employed in order to effect his wish. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 youthful youthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 secured secure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 subsequently subsequently ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 19 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 fixed _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the object | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | | 2 | **gardener** | | the object | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **secure** | participle | | the youthful gardener *not said here* | | the maid's hiding place | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source | | 4 | **employ** | participle | | | | effect maid's wish | | subsequently *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wish** | | maid | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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} The ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1897-pg7277-part34:e2:o1:1 # text = The ring 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The old locket ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1897-pg7277-part34:e2:o2:1 # text = The old locket 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 locket locket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A key ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1897-pg7277-part34:e2:o3:1 # text = A key 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The snuff-box ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1897-pg7277-part34:e2:o4:1 # text = The snuff-box 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 snuff snuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 box box 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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