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title: so the cabs and carriages were all crazy in the street — Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28:… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the cabs and carriages were all crazy in the street Test 9 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows st…

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so the cabs and carriages were all crazy in the street

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cabs · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** street

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 817 «Andersen's Tales, The Dryad, part 28: the Dryad follows strangers down into the Paris sewers» 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/817-pg27200-part28/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:817-pg27200-part28:t9:1
# text = so the cabs and carriages were all crazy in the street
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cabs	cab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cabs and carriages |  |  | the street |  | all, crazy *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, rolling carriages and omnibuses everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:817-pg27200-part28:t9:o1:1
# text = yeah, rolling carriages and omnibuses everywhere
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	omnibuses	omnibus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  | carriages and omnibuses |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, bicycles and wagons raced around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:817-pg27200-part28:t9:o2:1
# text = yes, bicycles and wagons raced around
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	raced	race	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race around** | participle |  | bicycles and wagons *not said here* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, horses and cabs filled the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:817-pg27200-part28:t9:o3:1
# text = yeah, horses and cabs filled the road
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cabs	cab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, lots of carts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:817-pg27200-part28:t9:o4:1
# text = yeah, lots of carts
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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