--- title: Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it? — Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc… · tree and pragmatics description: Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1744-pg640-part68/t4/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1744-pg640-part68/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a… Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** book · **What happens:** do, read · **To what, where:** anyone, book This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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/1744-pg640-part68/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t4:1 # text = Lol the bandmaster's book, did anyone actually read it? 1 Lol lol INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bandmaster bandmaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 actually actually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the bandmaster's book | anyone | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Eventuality | | 2 | **read** | past | | book | | | | actually *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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} Few read it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t4:o1:1 # text = Few read it 1 Few few NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | past | Few | it | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Everyone said so, but no one read it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t4:o2:1 # text = Everyone said so, but no one read it 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Everyone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **read** | past | no one | it | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ### Option 3 {#o3} Many praised it, few understood it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t4:o3:1 # text = Many praised it, few understood it 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nsubj _ _ 2 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 6 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **praise** | past | Many | it | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **understand** | past | few | it | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Everyone said so, but few understood it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t4:o4:1 # text = Everyone said so, but few understood it 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 7 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Everyone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **understand** | past | few | it | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | **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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