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title: Why did his flying trunk go up in smoke, like totally? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did his flying trunk go up in smoke, like totally? Test 6 · ★ 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 choice was 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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Why did his flying trunk go up in smoke, like totally?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** flying trunk · **What happens:** fly, go up

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t6:1
# text = Why did his flying trunk go up in smoke, like totally?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go up** | past · do-support | his flying trunk |  |  |  |  | in smoke; totally *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in smoke=Attribute |

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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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a spark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t6:o1:1
# text = a spark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a spark from the fireworks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t6:o2:1
# text = a spark from the fireworks
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a candle left burning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t6:o3:1
# text = a candle left burning
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a candle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | a candle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Turkish lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t6:o4:1
# text = the Turkish lanterns
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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