---
title: what did the Fire-drum always go, like, rub-a-dub? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the Fire-drum always go, like, rub-a-dub? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 834 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the fire breaks out and the goblin saves the student's book» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/834-pg27200-part45/t11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Goblin and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/834-pg27200-part45/) / t11

# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the f…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what did the Fire-drum always go, like, rub-a-dub?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** go

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 834 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the fire breaks out and the goblin saves the student's book» 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/834-pg27200-part45/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:834-pg27200-part45:t11:1
# text = what did the Fire-drum always go, like, rub-a-dub?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | like a dub; always *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bang, bang, bang, boom-boom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:834-pg27200-part45:t11:o1:1
# text = Bang, bang, bang, boom-boom
1	Bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:834-pg27200-part45:t11:o2:1
# text = Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub
1	Dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dub** |  | rub |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dub, dub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:834-pg27200-part45:t11:o3:1
# text = Dub, dub
1	Dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rub-a-dub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:834-pg27200-part45:t11:o4:1
# text = Rub-a-dub
1	Rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dub	dub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/834-pg27200-part45/t10/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/834-pg27200-part45/t12/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the fire breaks out and the goblin saves the student's book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/834-pg27200-part45/)

