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title: Lol, what was the nightingale singing about, like, sugar? — Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was the nightingale singing about, like, sugar? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

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Lol, what was the nightingale singing about, like, sugar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nightingale · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** nightingale

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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/1509-pg540-part6/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:t5:1
# text = Lol, what was the nightingale singing about, like, sugar?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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Sweet tarts and almonds hidden under the old oak tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:t5:o1:1
# text = Sweet tarts and almonds hidden under the old oak tree
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  | Sweet tarts and almonds *not said here* |  | the old oak tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |

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

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Tarts and almonds under a bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:t5:o2:1
# text = Tarts and almonds under a bush
1	Tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Honey and cakes by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:t5:o3:1
# text = Honey and cakes by the river
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lovely roses in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1509-pg540-part6:t5:o4:1
# text = Lovely roses in the garden
1	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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