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title: Which fruit caused Tiidu's nose to elongate excessively? — Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which fruit caused Tiidu's nose to elongate excessively? Exam question 2 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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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# Exam question 2 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

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Which fruit caused Tiidu's nose to elongate excessively?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fruit, nose · **What happens:** cause, elongate · **To what, where:** nose

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/679-pg2435-part19/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e2:1
# text = Which fruit caused Tiidu's nose to elongate excessively?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	elongate	elongate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
9	excessively	excessively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | which fruit | Tiidu's nose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **elongate** | to-infinitive | Tiidu's nose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | excessively *property* | 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}

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A nut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e2:o1:1
# text = A nut
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e2:o2:1
# text = A fig
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A red apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e2:o3:1
# text = A red apple
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	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 green pear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e2:o4:1
# text = A green pear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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