--- title: Did the clock like just stop dead, or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the clock like just stop dead, or what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/t3/) [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 Story of a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m… Did the clock like just stop dead, or what? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, stop · **To what, where:** clock This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t3:1 # text = Did the clock like just stop dead, or what? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the clock | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | present | | | | | | dead *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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} yeah, it went proper bump and then just stopped dead ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t3:o1:1 # text = yeah, it went proper bump and then just stopped dead 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | it | proper bump | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | | | | | then | dead *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah, it went bump and then quietly ticked again ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t3:o2:1 # text = yeah, it went bump and then quietly ticked again 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 8 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 ticked tick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | it | bump | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme | | 2 | **tick** | participle | | | | | then; again | quietly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} yeah, it went bump and stopped ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t3:o3:1 # text = yeah, it went bump and stopped 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | it | bump | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 4 {#o4} yeah, it went clang and quit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t3:o4:1 # text = yeah, it went clang and quit 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 clang clang NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 quit quit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | it | clang and quit | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clang=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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