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title: What object did the watchman leave behind on the floor? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did the watchman leave behind on the floor? Exam question 2 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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What object did the watchman leave behind on the floor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** watchman · **What happens:** leave behind · **To what, where:** floor

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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/280-pg1597-part7/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e2:1
# text = What object did the watchman leave behind on the floor?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obl	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past · do-support | the watchman |  |  | the floor |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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A hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e2:o1:1
# text = A hat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The galoshes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e2:o2:1
# text = The galoshes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The lantern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e2:o3:1
# text = The lantern
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lantern	lantern	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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Gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e2:o4:1
# text = Gloves
1	Gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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