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title: no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town? — Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moo… · tree and pragmatics
description: no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 8 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

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no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lie, soldiers · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** quiet town

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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/903-pg27200-part114/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t8:1
# text = no lie, what did the soldiers do in that quiet town?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no lie |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the soldiers |  |  | that quiet town |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Marched through the town at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t8:o1:1
# text = Marched through the town at dawn
1	Marched	march	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | participle |  |  |  | the town | dawn |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Gambled away their pay playing cards and dice all night long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t8:o2:1
# text = Gambled away their pay playing cards and dice all night long
1	Gambled	gamble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:agent	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gamble away** | participle |  |  |  |  | night | away *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | their pay *not said here* | cards and dice |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sang songs in the quiet square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t8:o3:1
# text = Sang songs in the quiet square
1	Sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | songs |  | the quiet square |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Played cards and dice all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t8:o4:1
# text = Played cards and dice all night
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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