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title: Sus question: what was Eric's job? — Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus question: what was Eric's job? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

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Sus question: what was Eric's job?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus question · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t7:1
# text = Sus question: what was Eric's job?
1	Sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sus question and Eric's job | Eric's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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cordwainer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t7:o1:1
# text = cordwainer
1	cordwainer	cordwainer	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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glovemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t7:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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a maker of fine leather gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t7:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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he sewed gloves for the gentry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t7:o4:1
# text = he sewed gloves for the gentry
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gentry	gentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | he | gloves |  |  |  | for the gentry | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent glove=Material for gentry=Beneficiary |

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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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