--- title: What did the boy's family, like, do every Sunday? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House,… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the boy's family, like, do every Sunday? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/299-pg1597-part26/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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/299-pg1597-part26/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier… What did the boy's family, like, do every Sunday? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** family This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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/299-pg1597-part26/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t13:1 # text = What did the boy's family, like, do every Sunday? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the boy's family | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | | | | | sunday | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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} read books ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t13:o1:1 # text = read books 1 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | books | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ### Option 2 {#o2} prayed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t13:o2:1 # text = prayed 1 prayed pray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** | participle | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} sung their Psalms ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t13:o3:1 # text = sung their Psalms 1 sung sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Psalms psalm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | their Psalms | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} sang their hymns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t13:o4:1 # text = sang their hymns 1 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hymns hymn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | | their hymns | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | | 2 | **hymn** | | their *= they* | | | | | | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | **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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