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title: Where did the cypress tree stand in the meadow? — Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the cypress tree stand in the meadow? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

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Where did the cypress tree stand in the meadow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cypress tree · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** meadow

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1784-pg641-part35/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1784-pg641-part35:t6:1
# text = Where did the cypress tree stand in the meadow?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the cypress tree |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location |

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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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Beside a stream, alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1784-pg641-part35:t6:o1:1
# text = Beside a stream, alone
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Near the river bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1784-pg641-part35:t6:o2:1
# text = Near the river bank
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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In one corner, all on its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1784-pg641-part35:t6:o3:1
# text = In one corner, all on its own
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	appos	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1784-pg641-part35:t6:o4:1
# text = In the middle
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	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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