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title: What was lighting up the forest, like? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was lighting up the forest, like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

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What was lighting up the forest, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** light up · **To what, where:** forest

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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/1542-pg540-part39/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t12:1
# text = What was lighting up the forest, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | past · progressive |  | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Product |

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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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lamps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t12:o1:1
# text = lamps
1	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the trees, all glowy like a torch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t12:o2:1
# text = the trees, all glowy like a torch
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	glowy	glowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t12:o3:1
# text = the moon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the stars, all shiny like a lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t12:o4:1
# text = the stars, all shiny like a lamp
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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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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