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title: ok so the singing, was it lowkey better than a nightingale? — Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so the singing, was it lowkey better than a nightingale? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok so the singing, was it lowkey better than a nightingale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** singing · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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/1216-pg3282-part17/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t2:1
# text = ok so the singing, was it lowkey better than a nightingale?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
8	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the singing |  |  |  |  | than a nightingale; good, lowkey *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sweet voice singing better than any nightingale ever could in the whole wide valley

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t2:o1:1
# text = a sweet voice singing better than any nightingale ever could in the whole wide valley
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	valley	valley	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* | gerund | a sweet voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than any nightingale; good *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like a choir of angels singing high above the trees and the river all through the night

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t2:o2:1
# text = like a choir of angels singing high above the trees and the river all through the night
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | angels *not said here* |  |  | the trees and the river | night | high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tree=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sweeter than any nightingale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t2:o3:1
# text = sweeter than any nightingale
1	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
louder than any thunder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t2:o4:1
# text = louder than any thunder
1	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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