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title: What did the clerk consider the poet's advantage over a clerk? — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the clerk consider the poet's advantage over a clerk? Exam question 4 of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…

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What did the clerk consider the poet's advantage over a clerk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clerk · **What happens:** consider · **To what, where:** advantage, clerk

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» 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/840-pg27200-part51/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:840-pg27200-part51:e4:1
# text = What did the clerk consider the poet's advantage over a clerk?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past · do-support | the clerk | the poet's advantage |  | a clerk |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme advantage=Attribute |

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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 steady job at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:840-pg27200-part51:e4:o1:1
# text = A steady job at home
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Higher pay at work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:840-pg27200-part51:e4:o2:1
# text = Higher pay at work
1	Higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Freedom to write poetry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:840-pg27200-part51:e4:o3:1
# text = Freedom to write poetry
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | to-infinitive |  | poetry |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Freedom to write poetry and to walk about the city all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:840-pg27200-part51:e4:o4:1
# text = Freedom to write poetry and to walk about the city all day
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | to-infinitive | Freedom | poetry |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Freedom *not said here* |  |  |  | day | about the city | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory |

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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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