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title: Mate, which tree kept Knud company in the end? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which tree kept Knud company in the end? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

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Mate, which tree kept Knud company in the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** Knud company, end

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1018-pg27200-part229/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t8:1
# text = Mate, which tree kept Knud company in the end?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Mate and which tree | Knud company |  |  | in the end |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent company=Theme in end=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The willow by the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t8:o1:1
# text = The willow by the road
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A pine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t8:o2:1
# text = A pine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pine	pine	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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An oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t8:o3:1
# text = An oak
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The birch near the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t8:o4:1
# text = The birch near the church
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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