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description: With reference to the narrative, identify the ultimate office the wife desires after that of pope. Exam question 3 of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» of the books course of Mova's primar
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

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With reference to the narrative, identify the ultimate office the wife desires after that of pope.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, wife · **What happens:** identify, desire · **To what, where:** ultimate office

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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/1938-pg7277-part75/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:e3:1
# text = With reference to the narrative, identify the ultimate office the wife desires after that of pope.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ultimate office |  |  |  | with reference to the narrative | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
| 2 | **desire** | present | the wife |  |  |  | after that |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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a duke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:e3:o1:1
# text = a duke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duke	duke	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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a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:e3:o2:1
# text = a king
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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a god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:e3:o3:1
# text = a god
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	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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pope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:e3:o4:1
# text = pope
1	pope	pope	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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