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title: Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone? — Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone? Test 5 · ★ 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 option; Mova
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

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Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nightingale · **What happens:** say, not tell · **To what, where:** anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t5:1
# text = Why'd the Nightingale say, Don't tell anyone?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive · do-support | the Nightingale *not said here* |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |

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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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So no one else would hear of her visits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t5:o1:1
# text = So no one else would hear of her visits
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | no one |  |  |  |  | of her visits | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of visit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **visit** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So nobody else would learn of her visits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t5:o2:1
# text = So nobody else would learn of her visits
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | nobody |  |  |  |  | of her visits | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of visit=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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So nobody else would know about her visits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t5:o3:1
# text = So nobody else would know about her visits
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | nobody |  |  |  |  | about her visits | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about visit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **visit** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So nobody else would know about her visits, because the Court would have punished her

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t5:o4:1
# text = So nobody else would know about her visits, because the Court would have punished her
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | nobody |  |  |  |  | about her visits | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about visit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **punish** | would · perfect | the Court | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **visit** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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