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title: What substance did Great Claus apply to the bottom of the measure, s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What substance did Great Claus apply to the bottom of the measure, so as to catch coins? Exam question 4 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 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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What substance did Great Claus apply to the bottom of the measure, so as to catch coins?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** substance, Great · **What happens:** do, apply, catch · **To what, where:** coins

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e4:1
# text = What substance did Great Claus apply to the bottom of the measure, so as to catch coins?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	apply	apply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
18	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | substance |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **apply** | present | Great |  |  |  |  | to the bottom of the measure | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Great *not said here* | coins |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |

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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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Gum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e4:o1:1
# text = Gum
1	Gum	gum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e4:o2:1
# text = Ox
1	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e4:o3:1
# text = Tar
1	Tar	tar	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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Ink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:e4:o4:1
# text = Ink
1	Ink	ink	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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