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title: dude, why was the room pitch black when Tuk got back? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, why was the room pitch black when Tuk got back? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

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dude, why was the room pitch black when Tuk got back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tuk · **What happens:** be, get back · **To what, where:** room pitch

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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/884-pg27200-part95/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t9:1
# text = dude, why was the room pitch black when Tuk got back?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the room pitch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get back** | past | Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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no fire in the stove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t9:o1:1
# text = no fire in the stove
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
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	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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no money for a candle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t9:o2:1
# text = no money for a candle
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it was dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t9:o3:1
# text = it was dark
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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no candles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t9:o4:1
# text = no candles
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	candles	candle	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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