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title: Yeah, but what did the paper actually shout as it burst into flames? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Tru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeah, but what did the paper actually shout as it burst into flames? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

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Yeah, but what did the paper actually shout as it burst into flames?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** paper · **What happens:** do, shout, burst · **To what, where:** paper, flames · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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/828-pg27200-part39/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:828-pg27200-part39:t5:1
# text = Yeah, but what did the paper actually shout as it burst into flames?
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **burst** | past | paper |  |  | flames |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 {#o1}

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"Oops"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:828-pg27200-part39:t5:o1:1
# text = "Oops"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oops	oops	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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"Oi"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:828-pg27200-part39:t5:o2:1
# text = "Oi"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oi	Oi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Ah"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:828-pg27200-part39:t5:o3:1
# text = "Ah"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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"Ugh"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:828-pg27200-part39:t5:o4:1
# text = "Ugh"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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