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title: bro, what was the music like over there? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what was the music like over there? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

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bro, what was the music like over there?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» 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/303-pg1597-part30/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t4:1
# text = bro, what was the music like over there?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tiresome, like one song on repeat for the whole night long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t4:o1:1
# text = tiresome, like one song on repeat for the whole night long
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	repeat	repeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
boring, like a dull old song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t4:o2:1
# text = boring, like a dull old song
1	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	song	song	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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tiresome, like a whole band playing wrong notes forever and ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t4:o3:1
# text = tiresome, like a whole band playing wrong notes forever and ever
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | a tiresome whole band *not said here* | wrong notes |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tiresome, like one song on repeat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t4:o4:1
# text = tiresome, like one song on repeat
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	repeat	repeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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