--- title: Ok, so what did the furniture shout when the boy turned up? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House,… · tree and pragmatics description: Ok, so what did the furniture shout when the boy turned up? Test 4 · ★ 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' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/299-pg1597-part26/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier… Ok, so what did the furniture shout when the boy turned up? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** furniture, boy · **What happens:** shout, turn up This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t4:1 # text = Ok, so what did the furniture shout when the boy turned up? 1 Ok ok INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the furniture | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 2 | **turn up** | past | the boy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} "Hi!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t4:o1:1 # text = "Hi!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hi hi INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} "Oh!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t4:o2:1 # text = "Oh!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} "Thankee! thankee!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t4:o3:1 # text = "Thankee! thankee!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Thankee Thankee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 thankee thankee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} "Hush, hush now!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:299-pg1597-part26:t4:o4:1 # text = "Hush, hush now!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hush hush INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 hush hush VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hush** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | **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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