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title: What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement… — Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement of the betrothal? Exam question 2 of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

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What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement of the betrothal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, circulate, announce · **To what, where:** mother purchase, order, announcement, betrothal

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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/797-pg27200-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e2:1
# text = What did the mother purchase in order to circulate the announcement of the betrothal?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	circulate	circulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the mother purchase |  | order |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Eventuality |
| 2 | **circulate** | to-infinitive |  | the announcement of the betrothal |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location announcement=Theme |
| 3 | **announce** |  |  | the betrothal |  |  |  |  | nom announcement «communication transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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thirty copies of the newspaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = thirty copies of the newspaper
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** |  |  | the newspaper |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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thirty copies of the gazette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = thirty copies of the gazette
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gazette	gazette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** |  |  | the gazette |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twenty copies of the paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = twenty copies of the paper
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** |  |  | the paper |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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thirty copies of the newspaper sent to every relative in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:797-pg27200-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = thirty copies of the newspaper sent to every relative in town
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  | the newspaper *not said here* |  | town |  | to every relative | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to relative=Destination |
| 2 | **copy** |  |  | the newspaper |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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