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title: Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom? Exam question 2 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

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Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** tree bloom

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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/911-pg27200-part122/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e2:1
# text = Upon whose grave did the rose-tree bloom?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the tree bloom |  |  |  | upon grave | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloom=Eventuality |

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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 grave of Thorwaldsen in the courtyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e2:o1:1
# text = The grave of Thorwaldsen in the courtyard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Thorwaldsen's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e2:o2:1
# text = Thorwaldsen's
1	Thorwaldsen	Thorwaldsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sculptor's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e2:o3:1
# text = The sculptor's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The architect's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:e2:o4:1
# text = The architect's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	architect	architect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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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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