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title: Name the figure who, upon the student's death, removed the goloshes… — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Name the figure who, upon the student's death, removed the goloshes from his feet, and state the reason which she gave in the text for doing so? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Name the figure who, upon the student's death, removed the goloshes from his feet, and state the reason which she gave in the text for doing so?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, figure, reason, student · **What happens:** name, remove, state, give, do, die · **To what, where:** figure, goloshes, feet, reason, text

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e4:1
# text = Name the figure who, upon the student's death, removed the goloshes from his feet, and state the reason which she gave in the text for doing so?
1	Name	name	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	state	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | imperative | you *not said here* | the figure |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** | past | the figure | the goloshes |  | death's feet |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent golosh=Theme from foot=Source |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | past | the reason |  |  | the text |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | the reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | the student |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 stranger, who claimed they were gifts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e4:o1:1
# text = the stranger, who claimed they were gifts
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | they | gifts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Care, who regarded them as her own property and refused to return them to the student's family

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e4:o2:1
# text = Care, who regarded them as her own property and refused to return them to the student's family
1	Care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	regarded	regard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | past | Care | them *= they* |  |  |  | as Care's own property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme as property=Value |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | Care *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **return** | to-infinitive | Care *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the student's family |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to family=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the lame laundress who thought them hers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e4:o3:1
# text = the lame laundress who thought them hers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	laundress	laundress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the lame laundress | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme her=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Care, who regarded them as her own property

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:e4:o4:1
# text = Care, who regarded them as her own property
1	Care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	regarded	regard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | past | Care | them *= they* |  |  |  | as Care's own property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme as property=Value |

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