--- title: Ngl, why did the candles light up? — Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Ngl, why did the candles light up? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1440 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses the Beast's proposal, asks to visit home, and wakes in a strange room» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1440-pg503-part27/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1440-pg503-part27/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses… Ngl, why did the candles light up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl, candles · **What happens:** do, light up This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1440 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses the Beast's proposal, asks to visit home, and wakes in a strange room» 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/1440-pg503-part27/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:t13:1 # text = Ngl, why did the candles light up? 1 Ngl Ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 light light VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Ngl | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **light up** | present | the candles | | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} It was getting dusk and the room grew dim ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:t13:o1:1 # text = It was getting dusk and the room grew dim 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past · progressive | It | | | | dusk | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **grow** | past | the room | | | | | dim *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} It was getting dusk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:t13:o2:1 # text = It was getting dusk 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past · progressive | It | | | | dusk | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} She had lit them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:t13:o3:1 # text = She had lit them 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lit** | past · perfect | She | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Dinner time ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1440-pg503-part27:t13:o4:1 # text = Dinner time 1 Dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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