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title: where did Karen sit in church, in the posh bit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: where did Karen sit in church, in the posh bit? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

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where did Karen sit in church, in the posh bit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** church

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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/958-pg27200-part169/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t12:1
# text = where did Karen sit in church, in the posh bit?
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · do-support | Karen |  |  | church |  | in the posh bit | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location |

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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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in the pastor's pew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t12:o1:1
# text = in the pastor's pew
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	pew	pew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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on the front bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t12:o2:1
# text = on the front bench
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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next to the altar where the bishop stood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t12:o3:1
# text = next to the altar where the bishop stood
1	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the bishop |  |  |  |  | to the altar | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in the front pew beside the pastor's wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t12:o4:1
# text = in the front pew beside the pastor's wife
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pew	pew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pastor	pastor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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