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title: Mate, what did the moon actually give the lamp? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the moon actually give the lamp? Test 4 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

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Mate, what did the moon actually give the lamp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, give · **To what, where:** moon, lamp

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t4:1
# text = Mate, what did the moon actually give the lamp?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | present | Mate *not said here* | the lamp |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Some light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t4:o1:1
# text = Some light
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	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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A bit of wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t4:o2:1
# text = A bit of wax
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A silver ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t4:o3:1
# text = A silver ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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