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title: sus, what would the tree be happy about if somebody came for it? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, what would the tree be happy about if somebody came for it? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

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sus, what would the tree be happy about if somebody came for it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus, somebody · **What happens:** be, come

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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/826-pg27200-part37/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t7:1
# text = sus, what would the tree be happy about if somebody came for it?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | sus |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | somebody |  |  |  |  | for tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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getting out of that place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t7:o1:1
# text = getting out of that place
1	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | gerund |  | that place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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getting out of that dusty place and back into the sunshine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t7:o2:1
# text = getting out of that dusty place and back into the sunshine
1	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | gerund |  | that dusty place |  | the sunshine |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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seeing the green forest again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t7:o3:1
# text = seeing the green forest again
1	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | the green forest |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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getting out of that place and being carried into a bright room full of children

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t7:o4:1
# text = getting out of that place and being carried into a bright room full of children
1	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | gerund |  | that place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund · passive | getting |  |  | a bright room |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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