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title: Which object does the Nightingale sacrifice her life to create? — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object does the Nightingale sacrifice her life to create? Exam question 1 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 1 · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

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Which object does the Nightingale sacrifice her life to create?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, create · **To what, where:** Nightingale sacrifice

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2034-pg902-part4/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e1:1
# text = Which object does the Nightingale sacrifice her life to create?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which object | the Nightingale sacrifice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **create** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A red rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e1:o1:1
# text = A red rose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rose	rose	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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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e1:o2:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e1:o3:1
# text = A bud
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bud	bud	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 white lily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:e1:o4:1
# text = A white lily
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lily	lily	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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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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