--- title: Upon what did the thieves divide their booty beneath the forest tree? — English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine… · tree and pragmatics description: Upon what did the thieves divide their booty beneath the forest tree? Exam question 2 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1946-pg7439-part5/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1946-pg7439-part5/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin… Upon what did the thieves divide their booty beneath the forest tree? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thieves · **What happens:** divide · **To what, where:** booty This is exam question 2 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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/1946-pg7439-part5/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e2:1 # text = Upon what did the thieves divide their booty beneath the forest tree? 1 Upon upon ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 divide divide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 booty booty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divide** | past · do-support | the thieves | thieves's booty | | | | beneath the forest tree | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=Theme | 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} the cold stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e2:o1:1 # text = the cold stone 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a mossy log ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e2:o2:1 # text = a mossy log 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mossy mossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} grass ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e2:o3:1 # text = grass 1 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the ground ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e2:o4:1 # text = the ground 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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