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title: Sus, what's guarding the palm trees? — Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what's guarding the palm trees? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sus, what's guarding the palm trees?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** guard · **To what, where:** palm trees

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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/1823-pg7128-part7/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1823-pg7128-part7:t6:1
# text = Sus, what's guarding the palm trees?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present · progressive | Sus | the palm trees |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thousands of snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1823-pg7128-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = Thousands of snakes
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thousands of genii who kill anyone who comes near the palm trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1823-pg7128-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = Thousands of genii who kill anyone who comes near the palm trees
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Thousands of genii | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  | the palm trees |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near tree=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thousands of genii

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1823-pg7128-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = Thousands of genii
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thousands of genii with swords who guard the palace gate all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1823-pg7128-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = Thousands of genii with swords who guard the palace gate all night
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | swords | the palace gate |  |  | night |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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