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title: Dude, what was growing all over that island's forest? — Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what was growing all over that island's forest? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

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Dude, what was growing all over that island's forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** forest

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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/1731-pg640-part55/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t4:1
# text = Dude, what was growing all over that island's forest?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | Dude |  |  | that island's forest |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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berries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t4:o1:1
# text = berries
1	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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wild apples and plums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t4:o2:1
# text = wild apples and plums
1	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t4:o3:1
# text = apples
1	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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cherries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t4:o4:1
# text = cherries
1	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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