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title: Was the house opposite all noisy and that? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the house opposite all noisy and that? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

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Was the house opposite all noisy and that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** house · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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/970-pg27200-part181/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t10:1
# text = Was the house opposite all noisy and that?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the house |  |  |  |  | all, noisy *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yeah, it was noisy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was noisy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	noisy	noisy	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 |  |  |  |  | noisy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, there was loud music and shouting all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, there was loud music and shouting all night
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | loud music |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | loud music *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was dead quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t10:o3:1
# text = Nah, it was dead quiet
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	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 |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was dead quiet except for a dog barking outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t10:o4:1
# text = Nah, it was dead quiet except for a dog barking outside
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | except a dog; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bark** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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