--- title: bro, how many candles did they burn overnight? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, how many candles did they burn overnight? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/824-pg27200-part35/t6/) [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 Emperor's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/824-pg27200-part35/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa… bro, how many candles did they burn overnight? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** burn This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» 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/824-pg27200-part35/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t6:1 # text = bro, how many candles did they burn overnight? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 overnight overnight ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | past · do-support | bro and many candles | | | | | overnight *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Far more than sixteen, burning all night long for the cloth ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t6:o1:1 # text = Far more than sixteen, burning all night long for the cloth 1 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | night | for the cloth; long *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nearly twenty-four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t6:o2:1 # text = Nearly twenty-four 1 Nearly nearly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} More than sixteen, by the swindlers' own count ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t6:o3:1 # text = More than sixteen, by the swindlers' own count 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 swindlers swindler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 count count NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} More than sixteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:824-pg27200-part35:t6:o4:1 # text = More than sixteen 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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