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title: Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all others? Exam question 2 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

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Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all others?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** occupation · **What happens:** select · **To what, where:** preference

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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/987-pg27200-part198/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e2:1
# text = Which occupation did the eldest brother select in preference to all others?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · do-support | which occupation |  |  | preference |  | to all others | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to other=be' |

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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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The making of carts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e2:o1:1
# text = The making of carts
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** |  | carts |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The manufacture of bricks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e2:o2:1
# text = The manufacture of bricks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manufacture** |  |  | bricks |  |  |  |  | nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The manufacture of bricks and tiles for the whole town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e2:o3:1
# text = The manufacture of bricks and tiles for the whole town
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manufacture** |  |  | bricks and tiles |  |  |  | for the whole town | nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The manufacture of all kinds of bricks, tiles, and clay pots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:e2:o4:1
# text = The manufacture of all kinds of bricks, tiles, and clay pots
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manufacture** |  |  | all kinds of bricks and tiles |  |  |  |  | nom manufacture «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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