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title: Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

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Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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/872-pg27200-part83/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t11:1
# text = Sick, what sort of tree was the mum-tree living in?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* | what sort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the tree tree living | 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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the ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t11:o1:1
# text = the ash
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the beech-tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t11:o2:1
# text = the beech-tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tree	tree	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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the elder-tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t11:o3:1
# text = the elder-tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tree	tree	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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the oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t11:o4:1
# text = the oak
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oak	oak	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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