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title: what was up with the piano when the old man played? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was up with the piano when the old man played? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what was up with the piano when the old man played?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** old man

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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/922-pg27200-part133/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t3:1
# text = what was up with the piano when the old man played?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · passive |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was proper out of tune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t3:o1:1
# text = it was proper out of tune
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t3:o2:1
# text = it was loud
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	loud	loud	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 |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the pedal squeaked a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t3:o3:1
# text = the pedal squeaked a lot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pedal	pedal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeak** | past | the pedal | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it was broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t3:o4:1
# text = it was broken
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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