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title: Which substance did the wife conceal in the oven, as recorded in the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance did the wife conceal in the oven, as recorded in the text? Exam question 2 of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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Which substance did the wife conceal in the oven, as recorded in the text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** substance · **What happens:** conceal, record · **To what, where:** oven, text

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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/869-pg27200-part80/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e2:1
# text = Which substance did the wife conceal in the oven, as recorded in the text?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past · do-support | which substance |  |  | the oven |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location |
| 2 | **record** | participle | which substance *not said here* |  |  | the text |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination |

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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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Roast meat, fish, pies and the Sunday pudding for guests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e2:o1:1
# text = Roast meat, fish, pies and the Sunday pudding for guests
1	Roast	roast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | imperative | you *not said here* | meat and fish and pies and the Sunday pudding |  |  |  | for guests | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meat=Patient for guest=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Apples, pears and plums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e2:o2:1
# text = Apples, pears and plums
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Roast meat, fish and pies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e2:o3:1
# text = Roast meat, fish and pies
1	Roast	roast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | imperative | you *not said here* | meat and fish and pies |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Roast meat, fish, pies and every sweet cake from the pantry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e2:o4:1
# text = Roast meat, fish, pies and every sweet cake from the pantry
1	Roast	roast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pantry	pantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | imperative | you *not said here* | meat and fish and pies and every sweet cake |  | the pantry |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

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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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