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title: What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed… — Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed as a husband? Exam question 1 of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

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What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed as a husband?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** occupation · **What happens:** be, propose, occupy · **To what, where:** mistress, gentleman

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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/844-pg27200-part55/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:e1:1
# text = What was the occupation of the gentleman whom the mistress proposed as a husband?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
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	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the occupation of the gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  | the mistress *not said here* |  |  |  | as a husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **occupy** |  |  | the gentleman |  |  |  |  | nom occupation «act 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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a maker of fine leather gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:e1:o1:1
# text = a maker of fine leather gloves
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tanner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:e1:o2:1
# text = tanner
1	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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glovemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:e1:o3:1
# text = glovemaker
1	glovemaker	glovemaker	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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baker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:e1:o4:1
# text = baker
1	baker	baker	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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