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title: What's a dirge then, like a proper song? — Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's a dirge then, like a proper song? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 7 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What's a dirge then, like a proper song?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dirge

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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/1170-pg3027-part36/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t7:1
# text = What's a dirge then, like a proper song?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dirge	dirge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a dirge and a proper song |  |  | then |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A slow sad song for someone dead, sung at the funeral by the women

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t7:o1:1
# text = A slow sad song for someone dead, sung at the funeral by the women
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  | the funeral |  | by the women | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A loud war song sung by the men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t7:o2:1
# text = A loud war song sung by the men
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | a loud war song *not said here* |  |  |  | by the men | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by man=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A slow sad song for someone dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t7:o3:1
# text = A slow sad song for someone dead
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A slow sad song for someone dead, often sung on the road home to the village

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t7:o4:1
# text = A slow sad song for someone dead, often sung on the road home to the village
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  | the road |  | to the village; home, often *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location |

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