--- title: Wait, what did the Courtiers reckon the mooing was? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the Courtiers reckon the mooing was? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1743-pg640-part67/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1743-pg640-part67/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe… Wait, what did the Courtiers reckon the mooing was? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Courtiers · **What happens:** wait, be This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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/1743-pg640-part67/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t3:1 # text = Wait, what did the Courtiers reckon the mooing was? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 reckon reckon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mooing mooing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the Courtiers | | | | | reckon *property* | tree rules | 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 {#o1} a cow mooing from the far field ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t3:o1:1 # text = a cow mooing from the far field 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 mooing moo VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **moo** | gerund | a cow *not said here* | | | the far field | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} a cow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t3:o2:1 # text = a cow 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} a bird ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t3:o3:1 # text = a bird 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a cow in the Emperor's garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t3:o4:1 # text = a cow in the Emperor's garden 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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