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title: Mate, was the old house buzzing with noise or dead quiet? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was the old house buzzing with noise or dead quiet? Test 2 · ★ 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

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Mate, was the old house buzzing with noise or dead quiet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old house · **What happens:** be, buzz · **To what, where:** old house

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t2:1
# text = Mate, was the old house buzzing with noise or dead quiet?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	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	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	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 |  | the old house |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buzz** | gerund | the old house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with noise or dead quiet | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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buzzing with the noise of many children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t2:o1:1
# text = buzzing with the noise of many children
1	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the noise of many children | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme |
| 2 | **noise** |  | many children |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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busy and loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t2:o2:1
# text = busy and loud
1	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a loud party of guests laughing and dancing all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t2:o3:1
# text = a loud party of guests laughing and dancing all night
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | guests *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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dead quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t2:o4:1
# text = dead quiet
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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