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title: fr, what kind of wood was it, the one with the flowers that wanted p… — Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy o… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what kind of wood was it, the one with the flowers that wanted picking? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# Test 6 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30:…

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fr, what kind of wood was it, the one with the flowers that wanted picking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wood, flowers · **What happens:** be, want, pick

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1779 «Roumanian Tales, Petru and the Fairy of the Dawn, part 30: Petru meets a seven-headed dragon, fails, gets a magic horse, and resists the copper flowers» 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/1779-pg641-part30/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t6:1
# text = fr, what kind of wood was it, the one with the flowers that wanted picking?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wood |  |  |  |  | of wood | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** *not said to happen* | gerund | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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a wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t6:o1:1
# text = a wood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	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 silver forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t6:o2:1
# text = a silver forest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	forest	forest	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 bronze grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t6:o3:1
# text = a bronze grove
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a copper wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1779-pg641-part30:t6:o4:1
# text = a copper wood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wood	wood	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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