--- title: What made all the ladies start gurgling, innit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: What made all the ladies start gurgling, innit? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1743-pg640-part67/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe… What made all the ladies start gurgling, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** make, start, gurgle, innit This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t9:1 # text = What made all the ladies start gurgling, innit? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 5 det:predet _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 gurgling gurgle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | present | all ladies | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **gurgle** | gerund | all ladies *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **innit** | infinitive | all ladies *not said here* | | | | | | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} drinking the palace wine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t9:o1:1 # text = drinking the palace wine 1 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | gerund | | the palace wine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} holding water in their mouths ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t9:o2:1 # text = holding water in their mouths 1 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | gerund | | water | | their mouths | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} holding water in their mouths like the chaplain said ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t9:o3:1 # text = holding water in their mouths like the chaplain said 1 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 chaplain chaplain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | gerund | | water | | their mouths like the chaplain | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | holding | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} holding water in their mouths and copying the bird all night ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t9:o4:1 # text = holding water in their mouths and copying the bird all night 1 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | gerund | | water | | their mouths | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in mouth=Location | | 2 | **copy** | gerund | | the bird | | | night | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | **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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