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title: What occupation, in addition to hunting, is ascribed to the uncle? — Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide… · tree and pragmatics
description: What occupation, in addition to hunting, is ascribed to the uncle? Exam question 3 of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

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What occupation, in addition to hunting, is ascribed to the uncle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** occupation, ascribe · **To what, where:** occupation

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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/854-pg27200-part65/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:e3:1
# text = What occupation, in addition to hunting, is ascribed to the uncle?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupation** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ascribe** | present · passive |  | occupation |  |  |  | to the uncle | 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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a maker of wooden barrels and tubs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:e3:o1:1
# text = a maker of wooden barrels and tubs
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	_	5	case	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tubs	tub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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cooper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:e3:o2:1
# text = cooper
1	cooper	cooper	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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tanner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:e3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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a travelling wine merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:e3:o4:1
# text = a travelling wine merchant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	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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