--- title: Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to appa… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics description: Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to apparel most evidently demonstrate? Exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/e1/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:… Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to apparel most evidently demonstrate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** character trait, Emperor · **What happens:** do, apparel, demonstrate, devote · **To what, where:** inordinate devotion This is exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» 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/274-pg1597-part1/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:e1:1 # text = Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to apparel most evidently demonstrate? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 trait trait NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 inordinate inordinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 devotion devotion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 apparel apparel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ _ 13 evidently evidently ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 demonstrate demonstrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | character trait | the Emperor's inordinate devotion | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Eventuality | | 2 | **apparel** | to-infinitive | character trait *not said here* | the Emperor's inordinate devotion *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **demonstrate** | infinitive | character trait *not said here* | | | | | evidently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **devote** | | the Emperor | | | | | | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} vanity ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:e1:o1:1 # text = vanity 1 vanity vanity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} shyness ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:e1:o2:1 # text = shyness 1 shyness shyness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} greed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:e1:o3:1 # text = greed 1 greed greed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} envy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:e1:o4:1 # text = envy 1 envy envy 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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