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title: Ngl, what lit up the tree? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what lit up the tree? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

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Ngl, what lit up the tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** light up · **To what, where:** tree

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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/825-pg27200-part36/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t10:1
# text = Ngl, what lit up the tree?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | past | Ngl | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |

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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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Hundreds of tiny candles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t10:o1:1
# text = Hundreds of tiny candles
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hundreds of wax tapers placed on every single branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t10:o2:1
# text = Hundreds of wax tapers placed on every single branch
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle |  | wax tapers *not said here* |  | every single branch |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on branch=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dozens of golden lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t10:o3:1
# text = Dozens of golden lanterns
1	Dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Hundreds of wax tapers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t10:o4:1
# text = Hundreds of wax tapers
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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