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title: Wot did the Oak-tree wanna hear from her, fam? — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot did the Oak-tree wanna hear from her, fam? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

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Wot did the Oak-tree wanna hear from her, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** fam

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t8:1
# text = Wot did the Oak-tree wanna hear from her, fam?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wanna	wanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · do-support | Wot | fam |  |  |  | from wanna | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source |

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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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Her tale of the thorn and rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t8:o1:1
# text = Her tale of the thorn and rose
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** |  | the thorn and rose |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One last song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t8:o2:1
# text = One last song
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	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 final tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t8:o3:1
# text = A final tale
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tale	tale	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 lullaby to comfort him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t8:o4:1
# text = A lullaby to comfort him
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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