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title: What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt… — Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatr… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt upon her death? Exam question 2 of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

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What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt upon her death?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nature, her · **What happens:** be, bequeath, die · **To what, where:** legacy

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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/932-pg27200-part143/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:e2:1
# text = What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt upon her death?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nature of the legacy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bequeath** | participle |  | the legacy *not said here* |  |  |  | by the narrator's aunt upon her death | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 {#o1}

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a monthly subscription for a box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:e2:o1:1
# text = a monthly subscription for a box
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier, bequeathed for Saturdays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:e2:o2:1
# text = a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier, bequeathed for Saturdays
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	tier	tier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saturdays	saturday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bequeath** | participle · passive |  | a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier |  |  |  | for Saturdays *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for saturday=Goal |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a yearly subscription for a seat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:e2:o3:1
# text = a yearly subscription for a seat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a yearly subscription for a seat, with the condition that the heir remember the aunt weekly

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:e2:o4:1
# text = a yearly subscription for a seat, with the condition that the heir remember the aunt weekly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | infinitive | the heir | the aunt |  |  |  | weekly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent aunt=Theme |

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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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