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title: Which seed did the woodcutter scatter upon the path for his youngest… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which seed did the woodcutter scatter upon the path for his youngest daughter, in order to guide her return? Exam question 1 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daugh…

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Which seed did the woodcutter scatter upon the path for his youngest daughter, in order to guide her return?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** seed, woodcutter, her · **What happens:** do, scatter, guide, return · **To what, where:** path, return

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1615 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Sisters: the youngest daughter feeds the beasts and breaks the witch's spell» 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/1615-pg5615-part4/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e1:1
# text = Which seed did the woodcutter scatter upon the path for his youngest daughter, in order to guide her return?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	scatter	scatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which seed |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scatter** | present | the woodcutter |  |  | the path |  | for woodcutter's youngest daughter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon path=Destination |
| 3 | **guide** | to-infinitive | the woodcutter *not said here* | her return |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Theme |
| 4 | **return** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e1:o1:1
# text = peas
1	peas	pea	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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rye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e1:o2:1
# text = rye
1	rye	rye	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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green garden peas along the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e1:o3:1
# text = green garden peas along the path
1	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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oat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1615-pg5615-part4:e1:o4:1
# text = oat
1	oat	oat	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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