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title: Bro, what tree was growing in the courtyard? — Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what tree was growing in the courtyard? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

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Bro, what tree was growing in the courtyard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** Bro, courtyard

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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/943-pg27200-part154/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t7:1
# text = Bro, what tree was growing in the courtyard?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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a big old chestnut in the yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t7:o1:1
# text = a big old chestnut in the yard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a willow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t7:o2:1
# text = a willow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tall weeping willow tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t7:o3:1
# text = a tall weeping willow tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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an acacia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t7:o4:1
# text = an acacia
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	acacia	acacia	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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