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title: Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall? — Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh…

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Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** palace wall

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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/906-pg27200-part117/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t10:1
# text = Real talk, which plant grows in the palace wall?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Real talk |  |  | the palace wall |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location |

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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 olive bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t10:o1:1
# text = The olive bush
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The wild grape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t10:o2:1
# text = The wild grape
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A thorny mimosa growing from the broken marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t10:o3:1
# text = A thorny mimosa growing from the broken marble
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mimosa	mimosa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | a thorny mimosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the broken marble | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from marble=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The wild fig tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t10:o4:1
# text = The wild fig tree
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	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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