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title: Which character is described as the conductor of the omnibus that ca… — Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character is described as the conductor of the omnibus that carries all persons into eternity? Exam question 2 of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» of the books course of Mova's primary scho
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

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Which character is described as the conductor of the omnibus that carries all persons into eternity?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** omnibus · **What happens:** describe, carry · **To what, where:** character, persons, eternity

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» 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/930-pg27200-part141/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:930-pg27200-part141:e2:1
# text = Which character is described as the conductor of the omnibus that carries all persons into eternity?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conductor	conductor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	eternity	eternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which character |  |  |  | as the conductor of the omnibus | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as conductor=Attribute |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the omnibus | all persons |  |  | into eternity |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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Satan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:930-pg27200-part141:e2:o1:1
# text = Satan
1	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	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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Death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:930-pg27200-part141:e2:o2:1
# text = Death
1	Death	death	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 {#o3}

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God

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:930-pg27200-part141:e2:o3:1
# text = God
1	God	God	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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Fate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:930-pg27200-part141:e2:o4:1
# text = Fate
1	Fate	fate	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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