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title: On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree t… — Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed… · tree and pragmatics
description: On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree the following morning? Exam question 3 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» of the books cours
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# Exam question 3 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

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On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree the following morning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grounds, husband · **What happens:** do, resolve, uproot, follow · **To what, where:** pumpkin tree

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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/1308-pg3454-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e3:1
# text = On what grounds did the husband resolve to uproot the pumpkin tree the following morning?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	uproot	uproot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | grounds |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **resolve** | infinitive | the husband |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **uproot** | to-infinitive | the husband *not said here* | the pumpkin tree |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Spite at his wife's cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = Spite at his wife's cooking
1	Spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** |  | his wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Resentment at his wife's mistreatment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = Resentment at his wife's mistreatment
1	Resentment	resentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mistreatment	mistreatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mistreat** |  | his wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistreatment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Anger at his sister's pride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = Anger at his sister's pride
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pride** |  | his sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hunger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = Hunger
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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