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title: To what did the attendant ascribe the presence of a fully clothed ba… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what did the attendant ascribe the presence of a fully clothed bather? Exam question 2 of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

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To what did the attendant ascribe the presence of a fully clothed bather?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** attendant · **What happens:** ascribe, clothe · **To what, where:** presence

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» 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/281-pg1597-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e2:1
# text = To what did the attendant ascribe the presence of a fully clothed bather?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
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	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ascribe	ascribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	bather	bather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascribe** | past · do-support | the attendant | the presence of a clothed bather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clothe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 mistake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = a mistake
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a wager

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = a wager
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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an ancient custom of the bath house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = an ancient custom of the bath house
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a dispute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = a dispute
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dispute	dispute	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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