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title: Which fireworks were banging loud and happy? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which fireworks were banging loud and happy? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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Which fireworks were banging loud and happy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fireworks · **What happens:** bang

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» 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/2040-pg902-part10/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t12:1
# text = Which fireworks were banging loud and happy?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	banging	bang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** | past · progressive | which fireworks |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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the Squibs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t12:o1:1
# text = the Squibs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Squibs	squib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the Rocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t12:o2:1
# text = the Rocket
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Serpents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t12:o3:1
# text = the Serpents
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the Crackers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t12:o4:1
# text = the Crackers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crackers	Cracker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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