--- title: Where did Karen seek employment upon her final repentance? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics description: Where did Karen seek employment upon her final repentance? Exam question 4 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red… Where did Karen seek employment upon her final repentance? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** seek, repent · **To what, where:** employment, final repentance This is exam question 4 of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e4:1 # text = Where did Karen seek employment upon her final repentance? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 final final ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 repentance repentance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seek** | past · do-support | Karen | employment | | Karen's final repentance | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent employment=Theme upon repentance=Location | | 2 | **repent** | | Karen | | | | | | nom repentance «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#o1} In the old mill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e4:o1:1 # text = In the old mill 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} At the house of the parson and his wife ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e4:o2:1 # text = At the house of the parson and his wife 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parson parson NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} At the village inn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e4:o3:1 # text = At the village inn 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} At the parsonage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:e4:o4:1 # text = At the parsonage 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 parsonage parsonage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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