---
title: Gutted for the lamp, innit? What did it dream about? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gutted for the lamp, innit? What did it dream about? Test 6 · ★ 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 wr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/925-pg27200-part136/t6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Tales, The Old Street Lamp:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/925-pg27200-part136/) / t6

# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gutted for the lamp, innit? What did it dream about?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lamp · **What happens:** gut, innit, dream

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* Gutted for the lamp, innit?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:1
# text = Gutted for the lamp, innit?
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for the lamp | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What did it dream about?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:2
# text = What did it dream about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past · do-support | lamp |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being melted down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:o1:1
# text = Being melted down
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt down** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being sold off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:o2:1
# text = Being sold off
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell off** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being put out on the street again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:o3:1
# text = Being put out on the street again
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the street | again |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on street=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being carried off by a sailor to the Indies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:925-pg27200-part136:t6:o4:1
# text = Being carried off by a sailor to the Indies
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | gerund · passive | a sailor |  |  | the Indies |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to indy=Destination |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/925-pg27200-part136/t5/)
- next →: [Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp:…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/925-pg27200-part136/t7/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Tales, The Old Street Lamp: the lamp dreams it will be melted down](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/925-pg27200-part136/)