--- title: Bruh, what's the spring-root even for? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruh, what's the spring-root even for? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/686-pg2435-part26/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/686-pg2435-part26/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho… Bruh, what's the spring-root even for? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** spring root This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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/686-pg2435-part26/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t14:1 # text = Bruh, what's the spring-root even for? 1 Bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the spring root | | | | | tree rules | 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} Guarding the gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t14:o1:1 # text = Guarding the gold 1 Guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guard** | gerund | | the gold | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Beneficiary | ### Option 2 {#o2} Healing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t14:o2:1 # text = Healing 1 Healing healing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Finding treasure ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t14:o3:1 # text = Finding treasure 1 Finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | gerund | | treasure | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ### Option 4 {#o4} Cooking ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t14:o4:1 # text = Cooking 1 Cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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