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title: Bruv, what was the tree dreaming it would marry? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what was the tree dreaming it would marry? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1630 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burned, and a new tale 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 choice was
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burn…

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Bruv, what was the tree dreaming it would marry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dreaming · **What happens:** be, dream, marry · **To what, where:** tree

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1630 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir-Tree: the old tree is burned, and a new tale 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/1630-pg5615-part19/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1630-pg5615-part19:t9:1
# text = Bruv, what was the tree dreaming it would marry?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the tree |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund |  | tree |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **marry** | would | dreaming |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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A princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1630-pg5615-part19:t9:o1:1
# text = A princess
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1630-pg5615-part19:t9:o2:1
# text = A king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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A dairymaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1630-pg5615-part19:t9:o3:1
# text = A dairymaid
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dairymaid	dairymaid	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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A shepherdess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1630-pg5615-part19:t9:o4:1
# text = A shepherdess
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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