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description: Which vehicle was employed to convey the deceased gentleman to his place of interment? Exam question 3 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 qu
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

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Which vehicle was employed to convey the deceased gentleman to his place of interment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** employ, convey, decease · **To what, where:** vehicle, deceased gentleman, place

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e3:1
# text = Which vehicle was employed to convey the deceased gentleman to his place of interment?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	interment	interment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · passive |  | which vehicle |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **convey** | to-infinitive |  | the deceased gentleman | gentleman's place of interment |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Topic to place=Recipient |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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 wagon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e3:o1:1
# text = a wagon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wagon	wagon	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 cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e3:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a hearse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e3:o3:1
# text = a hearse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hearse	hearse	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 cab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:e3:o4:1
# text = a cab
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cab	cab	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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