--- title: Why'd the kids stop their games, like? — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Why'd the kids stop their games, like? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2034-pg902-part4/t14/) [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/) / [Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2034-pg902-part4/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal… Why'd the kids stop their games, like? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kids · **What happens:** stop · **To what, where:** games This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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/2034-pg902-part4/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t14:1 # text = Why'd the kids stop their games, like? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | would | the kids | kids's games | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector game=Eventuality | 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 {#o1} To watch the sunset ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t14:o1:1 # text = To watch the sunset 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | to-infinitive | | | | | sunset | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} To eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t14:o2:1 # text = To eat 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Because it rained ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t14:o3:1 # text = Because it rained 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rained rain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rain** | past | it | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} To listen to the birds ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t14:o4:1 # text = To listen to the birds 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to the birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | **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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