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title: Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

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Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be, lit up · **To what, where:** gold hut

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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/1444-pg503-part31/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t6:1
# text = Ngl, was the gold hut lit up like a mint disco?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	disco	disco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | the gold hut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lit up** | participle |  | the gold hut *not said here* |  |  |  | like a mint disco | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, shining and glittering

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah, shining and glittering
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it was a plain hut with only a few old candles inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t6:o2:1
# text = nah, it was a plain hut with only a few old candles inside
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a plain hut |  |  |  | with a few old candles | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it was grey and quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t6:o3:1
# text = nah, it was grey and quiet
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, just dull and gloomy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t6:o4:1
# text = nah, just dull and gloomy
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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