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title: What did the matches do when the maid lit them, all sputtery? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the matches do when the maid lit them, all sputtery? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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What did the matches do when the maid lit them, all sputtery?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** matches, maid · **What happens:** do, light · **To what, where:** matches

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t4:1
# text = What did the matches do when the maid lit them, all sputtery?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	sputtery	sputtery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the matches |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **light** | past | the maid | matches *= match* |  |  |  | all sputtery *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
blazed up then went out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t4:o1:1
# text = blazed up then went out
1	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sputtered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t4:o2:1
# text = sputtered
1	sputtered	sputter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sputter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lit up the whole room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t4:o3:1
# text = lit up the whole room
1	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit up** | participle |  | the whole room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
blazed up very brightly, then all of them went out at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t4:o4:1
# text = blazed up very brightly, then all of them went out at once
1	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze up** | participle | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go out** | past | all |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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