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title: Mate, which trees did they hide inside? — Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which trees did they hide inside? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 3 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

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Mate, which trees did they hide inside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** hide

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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/698-pg2435-part38/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t3:1
# text = Mate, which trees did they hide inside?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · do-support | trees |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative*; inside *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 green and gold tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t3:o1:1
# text = a green and gold tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	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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the green and red trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t3:o2:1
# text = the green and red trees
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two trees growing in the middle of the grove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t3:o3:1
# text = two trees growing in the middle of the grove
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | two trees *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the grove |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a hollow rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t3:o4:1
# text = a hollow rock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rock	rock	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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