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title: Where does the elder-tree bush first appear in the narrative? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where does the elder-tree bush first appear in the narrative? Exam question 1 of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

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Where does the elder-tree bush first appear in the narrative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tree bush · **What happens:** be, appear · **To what, where:** narrative

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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/295-pg1597-part22/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:e1:1
# text = Where does the elder-tree bush first appear in the narrative?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tree bush |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | the tree bush *not said here* |  |  | the narrative |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in narrative=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 {#o1}

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In the kitchen by the teapot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:e1:o1:1
# text = In the kitchen by the teapot
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teapot	teapot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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On the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:e1:o2:1
# text = On the window
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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In the boy's bedroom, where it pushes aside the curtains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:e1:o3:1
# text = In the boy's bedroom, where it pushes aside the curtains
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | bedroom | the curtains |  | the boy's bedroom |  | aside *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme in bedroom=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:e1:o4:1
# text = In the garden
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	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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