--- title: Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for? — English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom… · tree and pragmatics description: Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for? Exam question 3 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1967-pg7439-part26/e3/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tom…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1967-pg7439-part26/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca… Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dessert, Mrs. · **What happens:** do, profess · **To what, where:** fondness This is exam question 3 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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/1967-pg7439-part26/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e3:1 # text = Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 dessert dessert NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Miacca Miacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 profess profess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fondness fondness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which dessert | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **profess** | present | Mrs. | a fondness | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fondness=Theme | 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} Hot treacle pudding with custard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e3:o1:1 # text = Hot treacle pudding with custard 1 Hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 treacle treacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 custard custard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Pudding ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e3:o2:1 # text = Pudding 1 Pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Roly-poly jam pudding and cream ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e3:o3:1 # text = Roly-poly jam pudding and cream 1 Roly Roly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 poly poly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tartlets ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1967-pg7439-part26:e3:o4:1 # text = Tartlets 1 Tartlets tartlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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