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title: Bare embarrassing, but what got burnt on the birthday? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare embarrassing, but what got burnt on the birthday? Test 11 · ★ 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
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

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Bare embarrassing, but what got burnt on the birthday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** burnt · **To what, where:** birthday

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t11:1
# text = Bare embarrassing, but what got burnt on the birthday?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past · passive |  |  |  | the birthday |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t11:o1:1
# text = Oil
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spirits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t11:o2:1
# text = Spirits
1	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t11:o3:1
# text = Tar
1	Tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t11:o4:1
# text = Wax
1	Wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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