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title: Okay, the magician's kids were in the apple tree, fr? — pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, the magician's kids were in the apple tree, fr? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 6 · ★ · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

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Okay, the magician's kids were in the apple tree, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kids · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** apple tree

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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/1708-pg640-part32/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t6:1
# text = Okay, the magician's kids were in the apple tree, fr?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the magician's kids |  |  | the apple tree and fr |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, the magician hid them up there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t6:o1:1
# text = Fr, the magician hid them up there
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide up** | past | Fr and the magician | them *= they* |  | there |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, the magician hid them up there in the golden tree so no one could see

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t6:o2:1
# text = Fr, the magician hid them up there in the golden tree so no one could see
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide up** | past | Fr and the magician | them *= they* |  | the golden tree; there |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in tree=Location |
| 2 | **see** | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they were in the cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, they were in the cellar
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, the witch hid them there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t6:o4:1
# text = Fr, the witch hid them there
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | the witch | Fr |  | there |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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