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title: Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed? Exam question 1 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

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Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prior capacity, her · **What happens:** be, employ, marry · **To what, where:** narrator

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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/872-pg27200-part83/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e1:1
# text = Prior to her marriage, in what capacity was the narrator employed?
1	Prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	conj	_	_
8	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Prior capacity | the narrator |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  | the narrator *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **marry** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 kitchen helper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e1:o1:1
# text = a kitchen helper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	helper	helper	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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a farm labourer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e1:o2:1
# text = a farm labourer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	labourer	labourer	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 maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e1:o3:1
# text = a maid
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a domestic servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:e1:o4:1
# text = a domestic servant
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	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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