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title: Did the new time come, or nah? — Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the new time come, or nah? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the new time come, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new time · **What happens:** come

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» 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/804-pg27200-part15/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t12:1
# text = Did the new time come, or nah?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | the new time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Nah, darkness stayed in there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = Nah, darkness stayed in there
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay in** | past | darkness |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, still dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = Nah, still dark
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, the room stayed dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = Nope, the room stayed dark
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | the room |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, sunshine flooded the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = Yeah, sunshine flooded the room
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** | past | sunshine | the room |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |

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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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