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title: fr who is old Granny, for real? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr who is old Granny, for real? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bu…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr who is old Granny, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old Granny

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 295 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: an elder bush grows from a teapot and shows an old couple's golden day» 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/295-pg1597-part22/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:t4:1
# text = fr who is old Granny, for real?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | fr | old Granny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | fr *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the tree spirit who lives in the bush and the mother of all elder trees

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:t4:o1:1
# text = the tree spirit who lives in the bush and the mother of all elder trees
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the tree spirit |  |  | the bush and the mother of all elder trees |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the elder tree mother in the bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:t4:o2:1
# text = the elder tree mother in the bush
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wise woman of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:t4:o3:1
# text = the wise woman of the town
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old woman who lives at the top of the house and tells the children tales

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:295-pg1597-part22:t4:o4:1
# text = the old woman who lives at the top of the house and tells the children tales
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
13	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the old woman |  |  | the top of the house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the old woman | children tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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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