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title: By what conveyance is the young man travelling when first described? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what conveyance is the young man travelling when first described? Exam question 4 of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» of the books course of Mova's primary
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

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By what conveyance is the young man travelling when first described?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** conveyance, young man · **What happens:** be, travel, describe · **To what, where:** young man

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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/283-pg1597-part10/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:e4:1
# text = By what conveyance is the young man travelling when first described?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | conveyance | the young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **describe** | participle | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a diligence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:e4:o1:1
# text = a diligence
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diligence	diligence	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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a large old diligence coach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:e4:o2:1
# text = a large old diligence coach
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coach	coach	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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a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:e4:o3:1
# text = a cart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	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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a carriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:e4:o4:1
# text = a carriage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carriage	carriage	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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