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title: Nah, what was the tree in the hall doing, weeping? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nah, what was the tree in the hall doing, weeping? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

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Nah, what was the tree in the hall doing, weeping?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hall · **What happens:** be, do, weep · **To what, where:** tree, hall

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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/935-pg27200-part146/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t14:1
# text = Nah, what was the tree in the hall doing, weeping?
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the tree |  | the hall |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | the hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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dropping red dewdrops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t14:o1:1
# text = dropping red dewdrops
1	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund |  | red dewdrops |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dropping red dewdrops from its leaves like tears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t14:o2:1
# text = dropping red dewdrops from its leaves like tears
1	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund |  | red dewdrops |  | its leaves like tears |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme from leaf=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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weeping red dewdrops like a sad child in the dark hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t14:o3:1
# text = weeping red dewdrops like a sad child in the dark hall
1	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund |  | red dewdrops |  | the dark hall |  | like a sad child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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growing golden fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t14:o4:1
# text = growing golden fruit
1	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  | golden fruit |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fruit=Theme |

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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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