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title: why did the tower-keeper go up the church tower? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: O… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did the tower-keeper go up the church tower? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

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why did the tower-keeper go up the church tower?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tower keeper · **What happens:** go up · **To what, where:** church tower

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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/928-pg27200-part139/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t11:1
# text = why did the tower-keeper go up the church tower?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past · do-support | the tower keeper | the church tower |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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to be alone with his bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t11:o1:1
# text = to be alone with his bells
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with his bells; alone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to be a hermit, far away from people and the noisy square below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t11:o2:1
# text = to be a hermit, far away from people and the noisy square below
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	below	below	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a hermit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to be a hermit and live high above the town, away from all the people

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t11:o3:1
# text = to be a hermit and live high above the town, away from all the people
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a hermit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present |  |  |  | the town |  | away, high *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above town=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to be a hermit, away from people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t11:o4:1
# text = to be a hermit, away from people
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a hermit |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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