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title: No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff? — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way, madhouse · **What happens:** be, say, push · **To what, where:** madhouse, steam, stuff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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/999-pg27200-part210/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t4:1
# text = No way, who's stuck in a madhouse saying steam can push stuff?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no way |  |  | a madhouse |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a madhouse *not said here* | steam |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent steam=Topic |
| 3 | **push** | can | no way | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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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The inventor Solomon de Cares himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t4:o1:1
# text = The inventor Solomon de Cares himself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inventor	inventor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	Cares	Care	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The guy in the madhouse who says steam pushes stuff, Solomon de Cares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t4:o2:1
# text = The guy in the madhouse who says steam pushes stuff, Solomon de Cares
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	madhouse	madhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Cares	Cares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the madhouse | steam |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent steam=Topic |
| 2 | **push** | present | the guy in the madhouse | stuff |  |  |  | Solomon Cares *obl* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Johann Müller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t4:o3:1
# text = Johann Müller
1	Johann	Johann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Müller	Müller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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Solomon de Cares

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t4:o4:1
# text = Solomon de Cares
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cares	Cares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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