---
title: what even was the hazel tree doing? — Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier g… · tree and pragmatics
description: what even was the hazel tree doing? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 113 «Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape back and claims his bride, and Cinderella begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/113-pg11027-part16/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier g…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/113-pg11027-part16/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what even was the hazel tree doing?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** hazel tree

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 113 «Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape back and claims his bride, and Cinderella begins» 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/113-pg11027-part16/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:113-pg11027-part16:t9:1
# text = what even was the hazel tree doing?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the hazel tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it grew over her mum's grave, and the girl talked to it every day

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:113-pg11027-part16:t9:o1:1
# text = it grew over her mum's grave, and the girl talked to it every day
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | it |  |  | her mum's grave |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | past | the girl |  | grave |  | day |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it grew over her mum's grave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:113-pg11027-part16:t9:o2:1
# text = it grew over her mum's grave
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | it |  |  | her mum's grave |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it grew over her mum's grave and gave her nuts every autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:113-pg11027-part16:t9:o3:1
# text = it grew over her mum's grave and gave her nuts every autumn
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | it |  |  | her mum's grave |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | nuts | her *= she* |  | autumn |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nut=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it grew on her dad's land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:113-pg11027-part16:t9:o4:1
# text = it grew on her dad's land
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | it |  |  | her dad's land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier g…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/113-pg11027-part16/t8/)
- next →: [Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier g…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/113-pg11027-part16/t10/)
- ↑ back to [Grimm's Tales, Bearskin: the Soldier gets his human shape back and claims his bride, and Cinderella begins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/113-pg11027-part16/)