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title: test: was the gold under like a banana tree? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring,… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: was the gold under like a banana tree? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

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test: was the gold under like a banana tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** test gold, banana tree

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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/1833-pg7128-part17/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t4:1
# text = test: was the gold under like a banana tree?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the test gold |  | a banana tree |  |  | 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}

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nah, a pomegranate tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = nah, a pomegranate tree
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it was a pomegranate tree near the stables and the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = nah, it was a pomegranate tree near the stables and the well
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a pomegranate tree |  | the stables and the well |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, an olive grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = nah, an olive grove
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	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 {#o4}

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nah, a pomegranate tree by the back wall of the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = nah, a pomegranate tree by the back wall of the garden
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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