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title: Which relative was observed to weep continuously during the family m… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which relative was observed to weep continuously during the family meal? Exam question 4 of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

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Which relative was observed to weep continuously during the family meal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** observe, weep · **To what, where:** relative

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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/765-pg2591-part41/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:e4:1
# text = Which relative was observed to weep continuously during the family meal?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	continuously	continuously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past · passive |  | which relative |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | during the family meal | continuously *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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the stepmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:e4:o1:1
# text = the stepmother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepmother	stepmother	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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the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:e4:o2:1
# text = the cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	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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the father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:e4:o3:1
# text = the father
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	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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little Marleen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:e4:o4:1
# text = little Marleen
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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