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title: A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone. What is… — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict… · tree and pragmatics
description: A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone. What is its mood? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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 10 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

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A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone. What is its mood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poem · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** slow beat, mood

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:1
# text = A poem has a slow beat and words like grey, empty and alone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a poem | a slow beat and words like grey |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is its mood?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:2
# text = What is its mood?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | poem's mood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Scary and loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:o1:1
# text = Scary and loud
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sad and lonely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:o2:1
# text = Sad and lonely
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Happy and excited

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:o3:1
# text = Happy and excited
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Funny and silly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t10:o4:1
# text = Funny and silly
1	Funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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