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title: On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole? — Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper… · tree and pragmatics
description: On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole? Exam question 2 of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

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On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** narrator, occasion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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/929-pg27200-part140/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:e2:1
# text = On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	habitually	habitually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the narrator |  | occasion |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | present |  |  |  |  |  | upon Ole; habitually *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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directly after New Year's day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:e2:o1:1
# text = directly after New Year's day
1	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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during the first week of spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:e2:o2:1
# text = during the first week of spring
1	during	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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at Christmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:e2:o3:1
# text = at Christmas
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	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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every Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:929-pg27200-part140:e2:o4:1
# text = every Sunday
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	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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