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title: fr fr, who chased the clerk round the room? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr fr, who chased the clerk round the room? Test 5 · ★ 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, with the dependency t
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

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fr fr, who chased the clerk round the room?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr fr · **What happens:** chase · **To what, where:** clerk, room

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t5:1
# text = fr fr, who chased the clerk round the room?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past | fr fr | the clerk |  | the room |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clerk=Theme round room=Trajectory |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the enormous ginger tomcat from next door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t5:o1:1
# text = the enormous ginger tomcat from next door
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old neighbour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t5:o2:1
# text = the old neighbour
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the big tomcat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t5:o3:1
# text = the big tomcat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the big tomcat from downstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t5:o4:1
# text = the big tomcat from downstairs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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