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title: Okay so what lit up the whole saloon? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay so what lit up the whole saloon? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

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Okay so what lit up the whole saloon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** light up · **To what, where:** whole saloon

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» 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/878-pg27200-part89/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t14:1
# text = Okay so what lit up the whole saloon?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | past |  | the whole saloon |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saloon=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the blue fires burning inside the enormous shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t14:o1:1
# text = the blue fires burning inside the enormous shells
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund | the blue fires *not said here* |  |  | the enormous shells |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside shell=Location |

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

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blue fire in the shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t14:o2:1
# text = blue fire in the shells
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shells	shell	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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candles in the glass lamps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t14:o3:1
# text = candles in the glass lamps
1	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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blue flames in the walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t14:o4:1
# text = blue flames in the walls
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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