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title: Did the toys have a rave at midnight? — Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Sold… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the toys have a rave at midnight? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1000 «Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin sol…

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Did the toys have a rave at midnight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** toys · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** rave

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1000 «Andersen's Stories, The Brave Tin Soldier, part 1: tin soldiers meet a paper dancer, and one falls from the window» 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/1000-pg27200-part211/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1000-pg27200-part211:t5:1
# text = Did the toys have a rave at midnight?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rave	rave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the toys | a rave |  |  |  | at midnight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rave=Patient |

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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 -->
Yeah, sham fights and balls, pure chaos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1000-pg27200-part211:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, sham fights and balls, pure chaos
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sham	sham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chaos	chaos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, proper chaos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1000-pg27200-part211:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, proper chaos
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chaos	chaos	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 -->
Nah, they just sat about and sulked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1000-pg27200-part211:t5:o3:1
# text = Nah, they just sat about and sulked
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sulked	sulk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit about** | past | they |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sulk** | participle | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they slept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1000-pg27200-part211:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, they slept
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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