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title: Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland? — Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland? Test 8 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

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Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** new tale

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t8:1
# text = Wait, what's the new tale about, the one from Iceland?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 a** | present |  | the new tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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A king's son and a clever foster lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t8:o1:1
# text = A king's son and a clever foster lad
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A queen's son and a brave foster child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t8:o2:1
# text = A queen's son and a brave foster child
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A king's daughter and a clever foster son, whose story the fishermen told each winter

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t8:o3:1
# text = A king's daughter and a clever foster son, whose story the fishermen told each winter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a king's daughter and a clever foster son |  | each winter |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A king's daughter and a clever foster son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t8:o4:1
# text = A king's daughter and a clever foster son
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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