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title: In what season did the old man's garden first burst into bloom? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what season did the old man's garden first burst into bloom? Exam question 3 of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

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In what season did the old man's garden first burst into bloom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** season · **What happens:** do, burst · **To what, where:** garden, bloom

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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/1370-pg4018-part30/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:e3:1
# text = In what season did the old man's garden first burst into bloom?
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what season | the old man's garden |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Eventuality |
| 2 | **burst** | past |  |  |  | bloom |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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Spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:e3:o1:1
# text = Spring
1	Spring	spring	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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Mid summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:e3:o2:1
# text = Mid summer
1	Mid	mid	X	AFX	_	0	root	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	goeswith	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:e3:o3:1
# text = Dusk
1	Dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Late autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:e3:o4:1
# text = Late autumn
1	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	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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