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title: To what final fate did the soldier claim the elderly gentleman was c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House,… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what final fate did the soldier claim the elderly gentleman was consigned? Exam question 2 of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

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To what final fate did the soldier claim the elderly gentleman was consigned?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** final fate · **What happens:** do, claim, consign · **To what, where:** soldier, elderly gentleman

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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/299-pg1597-part26/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e2:1
# text = To what final fate did the soldier claim the elderly gentleman was consigned?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	consigned	consign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | final fate | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to what=Recipient |
| 3 | **consign** | past · passive |  | the elderly gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 grave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e2:o1:1
# text = a grave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	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 ditch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e2:o2:1
# text = a ditch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ditch	ditch	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 cell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e2:o3:1
# text = a cell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cell	cell	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 bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e2:o4:1
# text = a bed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bed	bed	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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