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title: Who responded to the goose’s crowd by requesting a man who could dri… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who responded to the goose’s crowd by requesting a man who could drink a cellarful of wine? Exam question 3 of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

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Who responded to the goose’s crowd by requesting a man who could drink a cellarful of wine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** respond, request, drink · **To what, where:** man, cellarful

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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/773-pg2591-part49/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:e3:1
# text = Who responded to the goose’s crowd by requesting a man who could drink a cellarful of wine?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	requesting	request	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cellarful	cellarful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the goose's crowd | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to crowd=Theme |
| 2 | **request** | gerund |  |  | a man |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **drink** | could | a man | a cellarful of wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellarful=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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Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:e3:o1:1
# text = Queen
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	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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The parson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:e3:o2:1
# text = The parson
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parson	parson	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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The princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:e3:o3:1
# text = The princess
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:e3:o4:1
# text = The king
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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