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title: did the tower-keeper want patent blacking or grease? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: O… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the tower-keeper want patent blacking or grease? Test 8 · ★ 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

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did the tower-keeper want patent blacking or grease?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tower keeper · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** patent blacking

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t8:1
# text = did the tower-keeper want patent blacking or grease?
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	blacking	blacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | the tower keeper | patent blacking or grease |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blacking=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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grease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t8:o1:1
# text = grease
1	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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patent blacking, obvs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t8:o2:1
# text = patent blacking, obvs
1	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	blacking	blacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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grease, obviously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t8:o3:1
# text = grease, obviously
1	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sheep fat, mostly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t8:o4:1
# text = sheep fat, mostly
1	sheep	sheep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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