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description: What was the designation of the document carried in the student's right-hand pocket? Exam question 2 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

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What was the designation of the document carried in the student's right-hand pocket?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** designation · **What happens:** be, carry, designate · **To what, where:** hand pocket, document

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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/842-pg27200-part53/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e2:1
# text = What was the designation of the document carried in the student's right-hand pocket?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the designation of the document |  |  | the student's hand pocket |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
| 3 | **designate** |  |  | the document |  |  |  |  | nom designation «communication transitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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bank draft note

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e2:o1:1
# text = bank draft note
1	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	draft	draft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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letter of credit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e2:o2:1
# text = letter of credit
1	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a letter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e2:o3:1
# text = a letter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	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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passport

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:e2:o4:1
# text = passport
1	passport	passport	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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