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title: Oi, where did the watchman's soul bolt off to? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, where did the watchman's soul bolt off to? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

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Oi, where did the watchman's soul bolt off to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** do, bolt off · **To what, where:** soul

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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/839-pg27200-part50/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t1:1
# text = Oi, where did the watchman's soul bolt off to?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	bolt	bolt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the watchman's soul |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bolt off** | present | Oi |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Straight up into the sky above the town and beyond the stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t1:o1:1
# text = Straight up into the sky above the town and beyond the stars
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t1:o2:1
# text = To the sea
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Off to the moon like a rocket right out the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t1:o3:1
# text = Off to the moon like a rocket right out the window
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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To the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t1:o4:1
# text = To the moon
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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