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title: Which vehicle did the brother versed in the dictionary select for hi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which vehicle did the brother versed in the dictionary select for his journey to the court? Exam question 2 of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» of the books course of
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

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Which vehicle did the brother versed in the dictionary select for his journey to the court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** vehicle, his · **What happens:** do, verse, select, journey · **To what, where:** brother, dictionary

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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/819-pg27200-part30/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:e2:1
# text = Which vehicle did the brother versed in the dictionary select for his journey to the court?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	versed	verse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which vehicle | the brother |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality |
| 2 | **verse** | participle | which vehicle *not said here* |  |  | the dictionary |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **select** | infinitive | which vehicle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for his journey to the court | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **journey** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  | to the court | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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 black horse with a silver saddle and bridle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:e2:o1:1
# text = a black horse with a silver saddle and bridle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a black horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:e2:o2:1
# text = a black horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	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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a grey pony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:e2:o3:1
# text = a grey pony
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pony	pony	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 cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:e2:o4:1
# 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.

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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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