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title: Wait, so what even is the Dryad, like a tree-girl or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so what even is the Dryad, like a tree-girl or what? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

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Wait, so what even is the Dryad, like a tree-girl or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Dryad

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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/819-pg27200-part30/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t2:1
# text = Wait, so what even is the Dryad, like a tree-girl or what?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the Dryad |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a girl who has been turned into a bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t2:o1:1
# text = a girl who has been turned into a bush
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · perfect · passive |  | a girl |  | a bush |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into bush=Trajectory |

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

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a tree spirit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t2:o2:1
# text = a tree spirit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a spirit that lives inside a tree trunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t2:o3:1
# text = a spirit that lives inside a tree trunk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a spirit |  |  | a tree trunk |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside trunk=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a forest pixie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t2:o4:1
# text = a forest pixie
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pixie	pixie	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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