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title: Which occupation did the clerk's friend follow? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which occupation did the clerk's friend follow? Exam question 3 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 pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

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Which occupation did the clerk's friend follow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** occupation, friend · **What happens:** do, follow

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e3:1
# text = Which occupation did the clerk's friend follow?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which occupation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | infinitive | the clerk's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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vet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e3:o1:1
# text = vet
1	vet	vet	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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actor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e3:o2:1
# text = actor
1	actor	actor	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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cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e3:o3:1
# text = cook
1	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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poet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e3:o4:1
# text = poet
1	poet	poet	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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