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title: Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Yea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

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Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, trees · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** flowers, leaves

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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/1031-pg27200-part242/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t8:1
# text = Be real, which trees got flowers before they even got leaves?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 3 | **get** | past | trees *= tree* | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=Stimulus |

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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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Cherry and pear trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t8:o1:1
# text = Cherry and pear trees
1	Cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 tall oaks and birches on the hills behind the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t8:o2:1
# text = The tall oaks and birches on the hills behind the farm
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	birches	birch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Apple and peach trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t8:o3:1
# text = Apple and peach trees
1	Apple	Apple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every single tree in the orchard near the old stone wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t8:o4:1
# text = Every single tree in the orchard near the old stone wall
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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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