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title: Was the flowery plain actually bare lush, or just mid? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the flowery plain actually bare lush, or just mid? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

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Was the flowery plain actually bare lush, or just mid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** flowery plain

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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/1465-pg503-part52/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t5:1
# text = Was the flowery plain actually bare lush, or just mid?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lush	lush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the flowery plain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t5:o1:1
# text = Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lush	lush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smelt** | past | Bare lush |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lush, but it smelt like nothing much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t5:o2:1
# text = Lush, but it smelt like nothing much
1	Lush	lush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smelt** | past | Lush |  |  |  |  | like nothing | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bare mid, honestly, it smelt rank and the grass was all dry and dusty brown

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t5:o3:1
# text = Bare mid, honestly, it smelt rank and the grass was all dry and dusty brown
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mid	mid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smelt** | present | mid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | rank and the grass |  |  |  |  | all, dry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | rank and the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything and the flowers were all glowing gold

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t5:o4:1
# text = Bare lush, it smelt nicer than anything and the flowers were all glowing gold
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lush	lush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smelt** | past | Bare lush |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the flowers | all glowing gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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