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title: wait did the soldiers do cannons or crackers? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait did the soldiers do cannons or crackers? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

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wait did the soldiers do cannons or crackers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, soldiers · **What happens:** wait, do · **To what, where:** cannons

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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/1010-pg27200-part221/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t9:1
# text = wait did the soldiers do cannons or crackers?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · do-support | the soldiers | cannons or crackers |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannon=Eventuality |

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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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bells and drums, mostly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t9:o1:1
# text = bells and drums, mostly
1	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
both, cannons and crackers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t9:o2:1
# text = both, cannons and crackers
1	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
only fireworks, no guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t9:o3:1
# text = only fireworks, no guns
1	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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both, cannons and crackers, and also bells and horns across the whole town square

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t9:o4:1
# text = both, cannons and crackers, and also bells and horns across the whole town square
1	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cannons	cannon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	bells	bell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bell** | present |  |  |  | the whole town square |  |  | tree rules |

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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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