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title: What's the hothouse like, in the story? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mothe… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the hothouse like, in the story? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

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What's the hothouse like, in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hothouse · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» 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/996-pg27200-part207/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t9:1
# text = What's the hothouse like, in the story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the hothouse like the story |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A glasshouse full of plants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t9:o1:1
# text = A glasshouse full of plants
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glasshouse	glasshouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A glasshouse full of plants and flowers, with a deep well at the end of it

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t9:o2:1
# text = A glasshouse full of plants and flowers, with a deep well at the end of it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glasshouse	glasshouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A cold shed full of tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t9:o3:1
# text = A cold shed full of tools
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A huge glasshouse full of rare plants, all lined up in rows on shelves, innit

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t9:o4:1
# text = A huge glasshouse full of rare plants, all lined up in rows on shelves, innit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	glasshouse	glasshouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line up** | participle |  | a huge glasshouse and innit *not said here* |  |  |  | in rows on shelves; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in row=Theme |

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