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title: Mate, what sort of tree grew at the door? — Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what sort of tree grew at the door? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1842 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at chaupur and wins Kokilan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

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Mate, what sort of tree grew at the door?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** grow, sort · **To what, where:** door, tree

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1842 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at chaupur and wins Kokilan» 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/1842-pg7128-part26/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1842-pg7128-part26:t12:1
# text = Mate, what sort of tree grew at the door?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Mate and what sort of tree |  |  | the door |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | tree |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1842-pg7128-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = A tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A mango tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1842-pg7128-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = A mango tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	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 banyan tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1842-pg7128-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = A banyan tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	banyan	banyan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	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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A young mango tree that blossomed after twelve years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1842-pg7128-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = A young mango tree that blossomed after twelve years
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blossom** | past | a young mango tree |  |  |  | year |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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