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title: Proper random, but what was growing out of the balcony? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, but what was growing out of the balcony? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

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Proper random, but what was growing out of the balcony?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** grow out · **To what, where:** balcony

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» 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/921-pg27200-part132/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t5:1
# text = Proper random, but what was growing out of the balcony?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | past · progressive |  | the balcony |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location balcony=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 {#o1}

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Long grass and wild leaves growing out of all the cracks in the stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t5:o1:1
# text = Long grass and wild leaves growing out of all the cracks in the stone
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | gerund | Long grass and wild leaves *not said here* | all cracks |  | the stone |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crack=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Tiny flowers in the holes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t5:o2:1
# text = Tiny flowers in the holes
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ivy in the old gaps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t5:o3:1
# text = Ivy in the old gaps
1	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Grass and leaves in the cracks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:t5:o4:1
# text = Grass and leaves in the cracks
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | Grass |  |  |  |  | in the cracks *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crack=Result |

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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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