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title: What office did the elderly elfin maiden hold in the household of th… — Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What office did the elderly elfin maiden hold in the household of the elf king? Exam question 3 of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…

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What office did the elderly elfin maiden hold in the household of the elf king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** office · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** elderly elfin maiden hold, household

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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/822-pg27200-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:e3:1
# text = What office did the elderly elfin maiden hold in the household of the elf king?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	office	office	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	8	det	_	_
5	elderly	elderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	elfin	elfin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | office | the elderly elfin maiden hold |  | the household of the elf king |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = Cook
1	Cook	cook	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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Nursemaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = Nursemaid
1	Nursemaid	nursemaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Housekeeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = Housekeeper
1	Housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = Maid
1	Maid	maid	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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