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title: Identify the substance with which the cook fastened the handkerchief… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the substance with which the cook fastened the handkerchief to the garment. Exam question 4 of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

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Identify the substance with which the cook fastened the handkerchief to the garment.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, cook · **What happens:** identify, fasten · **To what, where:** substance, handkerchief

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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/812-pg27200-part23/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:e4:1
# text = Identify the substance with which the cook fastened the handkerchief to the garment.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the substance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | the cook | the handkerchief |  |  |  | with the substance; to the garment | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient with which=Instrument to garment=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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sealing-wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:e4:o1:1
# text = sealing-wax
1	sealing	sealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wax	wax	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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wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:e4:o2:1
# text = wax
1	wax	wax	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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glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:e4:o3:1
# text = glue
1	glue	glue	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 dab of glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:e4:o4:1
# text = a dab of glue
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dab	dab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dab** |  |  | glue |  |  |  |  | nom dab «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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