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title: Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah? What does s… — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah? What does she press against? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

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Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah? What does she press against?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nightingale · **What happens:** sing, drop, press

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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/2033-pg902-part3/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:1
# text = Safe, the Nightingale's gonna sing till she drops, yeah?
1	Safe	safe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | the Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **drop** | present | Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does she press against?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:2
# text = What does she press against?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present · do-support | Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Spine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:o1:1
# text = Spine
1	Spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:o2:1
# text = A bush
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A thorn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:o3:1
# text = A thorn
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2033-pg902-part3:t12:o4:1
# text = A branch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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