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title: Which article did the watchman deliver to the police-office? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which article did the watchman deliver to the police-office? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

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Which article did the watchman deliver to the police-office?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** article · **What happens:** deliver · **To what, where:** police

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e4:1
# text = Which article did the watchman deliver to the police-office?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past · do-support | which article |  |  | the police and office |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to police=Destination |

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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 pair of galoshes and a walking stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e4:o1:1
# text = a pair of galoshes and a walking stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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 pair of galoshes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e4:o2:1
# text = a pair of galoshes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a pair of gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e4:o3:1
# text = a pair of gloves
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a pot of ointment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:e4:o4:1
# text = a pot of ointment
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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