--- title: What refrain did the furniture repeatedly utter when the visitor ent… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics description: What refrain did the furniture repeatedly utter when the visitor entered the room? Exam question 2 of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/e2/) [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 Old House:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/921-pg27200-part132/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an… What refrain did the furniture repeatedly utter when the visitor entered the room? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** visitor · **What happens:** be, do, enter · **To what, where:** furniture, room This is exam question 2 of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/921-pg27200-part132/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:e2:1 # text = What refrain did the furniture repeatedly utter when the visitor entered the room? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 refrain refrain AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 repeatedly repeatedly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 utter utt ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | | the furniture | | | | utt *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Eventuality | | 3 | **enter** | past | the visitor | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Creak ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:e2:o1:1 # text = Creak 1 Creak creak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sigh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:e2:o2:1 # text = Sigh 1 Sigh sigh INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Hi ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:e2:o3:1 # text = Hi 1 Hi hi INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Sit down, I am creaking ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:921-pg27200-part132:e2:o4:1 # text = Sit down, I am creaking 1 Sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 down down ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 creaking creak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **creak** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | **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. 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