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title: Did Jane reckon the lights were fairies planting trees? — The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Jane reckon the lights were fairies planting trees? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…

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Did Jane reckon the lights were fairies planting trees?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jane, lights, fairies · **What happens:** reckon, be, plant · **To what, where:** fairies, trees

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» 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/643-pg23661-part11/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t5:1
# text = Did Jane reckon the lights were fairies planting trees?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	planting	plant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | Jane |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the lights | fairies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plant** | gerund | fairies *not said here* | trees |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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Yeah, tiny glowing baby oaks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, tiny glowing baby oaks
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  | baby oaks |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent oak=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, little shiny baby poplars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, little shiny baby poplars
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	poplars	poplar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t5:o3:1
# text = Nah, just stars
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was just the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, it was just the moon
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	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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