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title: By whose grave does the rose claim to have grown? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: By whose grave does the rose claim to have grown? Exam question 1 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

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By whose grave does the rose claim to have grown?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, grow · **To what, where:** rose claim

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» 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/960-pg27200-part171/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e1:1
# text = By whose grave does the rose claim to have grown?
1	By	by	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	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the rose claim |  |  |  | by grave | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the rose claim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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A tomb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e1:o1:1
# text = A tomb
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The grave of Homer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e1:o2:1
# text = The grave of Homer
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	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The grave of Smyrna

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e1:o3:1
# text = The grave of Smyrna
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	Smyrna	Smyrna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e1:o4:1
# text = The sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	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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