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title: The clock was dead fast, yeah? How was it? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:… · tree and pragmatics
description: The clock was dead fast, yeah? How was it? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

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The clock was dead fast, yeah? How was it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** clock · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 925 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down» 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/925-pg27200-part136/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The clock was dead fast, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:1
# text = The clock was dead fast, yeah?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the clock |  |  |  |  | dead, fast *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How was it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:2
# text = How was it?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Always too fast, but the watchman never minded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:o1:1
# text = Always too fast, but the watchman never minded
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	minded	mind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | past | the watchman |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Always about ten minutes too fast each day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:o2:1
# text = Always about ten minutes too fast each day
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Always too slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:o3:1
# text = Always too slow
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Always too fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t10:o4:1
# text = Always too fast
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	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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