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title: Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize? — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize? Exam question 1 of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

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Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** flower, do, seize

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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/841-pg27200-part52/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:e1:1
# text = Which flower did the clerk involuntarily seize?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flower	flower	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	clerk	clerk	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flower** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | involuntarily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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the lily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:e1:o1:1
# text = the lily
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lily	lily	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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a tulip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:e1:o2:1
# text = a tulip
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tulip	tulip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the daisy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:e1:o3:1
# text = the daisy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daisy	daisy	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 violet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:e1:o4:1
# text = a violet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	violet	violet	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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