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title: Identify the intelligence conveyed to the laundress by Martha, which… — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the intelligence conveyed to the laundress by Martha, which caused her to experience faintness and distress? Exam question 3 of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress»
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Identify the intelligence conveyed to the laundress by Martha, which caused her to experience faintness and distress?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Martha · **What happens:** identify, convey, cause, experience · **To what, where:** intelligence, laundress, Martha, faintness

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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/843-pg27200-part54/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e3:1
# text = Identify the intelligence conveyed to the laundress by Martha, which caused her to experience faintness and distress?
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	laundress	laundress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	experience	experience	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	faintness	faintness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the intelligence |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | participle |  | the intelligence *not said here* | the laundress |  |  | by Martha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to laundress=Recipient |
| 3 | **cause** | past | Martha |  | Martha |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **experience** | to-infinitive | Martha *not said here* | faintness and distress |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faintness=Stimulus |

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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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that her boy had been sent to prison for stealing from the mayor's house

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e3:o1:1
# text = that her boy had been sent to prison for stealing from the mayor's house
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | her boy |  | prison |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund |  |  |  | the mayor's house |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the death of the mayor's younger brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e3:o2:1
# text = the death of the mayor's younger brother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | the mayor's younger brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the news that the mayor's younger brother had died suddenly in Copenhagen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e3:o3:1
# text = the news that the mayor's younger brother had died suddenly in Copenhagen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · perfect | the mayor's younger brother | the news *not said here* |  | Copenhagen |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
news that the mayor's brother had died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e3:o4:1
# text = news that the mayor's brother had died
1	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · perfect | the mayor's brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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