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title: Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attende… — Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attended the performance? Exam question 2 of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

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Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attended the performance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** attribute, attend · **To what, where:** profession, black, performance

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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/955-pg27200-part166/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:e2:1
# text = Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attended the performance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	profession	profession	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	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spectator	spectator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | present · passive |  | which profession |  | black |  | to the spectator | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | past |  | the performance |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme performance=Goal |

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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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Military service in the royal garrison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:e2:o1:1
# text = Military service in the royal garrison
1	Military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Commercial trade in livestock and horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:e2:o2:1
# text = Commercial trade in livestock and horses
1	Commercial	commercial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	livestock	livestock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Membership of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:e2:o3:1
# text = Membership of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen
1	Membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Institution	institution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Clerical office within the parish of Slagelse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:e2:o4:1
# text = Clerical office within the parish of Slagelse
1	Clerical	clerical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Slagelse	Slagelse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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