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title: why is the tower in the middle of the forest, lol? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: why is the tower in the middle of the forest, lol? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1567 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampion, a stolen baby, and a girl locked in a tower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampi…

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why is the tower in the middle of the forest, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tower, middle

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1567 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampion, a stolen baby, and a girl locked in a tower» 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/1567-pg540-part64/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1567-pg540-part64:t9:1
# text = why is the tower in the middle of the forest, lol?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the tower |  | the middle of the forest |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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so nobody could find her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1567-pg540-part64:t9:o1:1
# text = so nobody could find her
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | nobody | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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so nobody could get in, unless they knew the hair trick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1567-pg540-part64:t9:o2:1
# text = so nobody could get in, unless they knew the hair trick
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get in** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | they | the hair trick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to keep people out, unless they knew the trick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1567-pg540-part64:t9:o3:1
# text = to keep people out, unless they knew the trick
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | people | the trick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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so no one could reach her without the trick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1567-pg540-part64:t9:o4:1
# text = so no one could reach her without the trick
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | could | no one | her *= she* |  |  |  | without the trick | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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