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title: Which garments did the narrator's grandfather wear in his childhood? — Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which garments did the narrator's grandfather wear in his childhood? Exam question 1 of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

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Which garments did the narrator's grandfather wear in his childhood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrator · **What happens:** garment, do, wear · **To what, where:** grandfather wear, childhood

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» 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/994-pg27200-part205/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:e1:1
# text = Which garments did the narrator's grandfather wear in his childhood?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	garments	garment	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **garment** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the narrator's grandfather wear |  | his childhood |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wear** |  | the narrator |  |  |  |  |  | nom wear «state 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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red breeches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:e1:o1:1
# text = red breeches
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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white stockings and a black cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:e1:o2:1
# text = white stockings and a black cap
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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red breeches and a red coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:e1:o3:1
# text = red breeches and a red coat
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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blue breeches and a green coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:e1:o4:1
# text = blue breeches and a green coat
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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