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title: no cap, did the canary sing about the Canary Isles? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, did the canary sing about the Canary Isles? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

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no cap, did the canary sing about the Canary Isles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** canary sing

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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/283-pg1597-part10/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t4:1
# text = no cap, did the canary sing about the Canary Isles?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	canary	canary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Canary	Canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | the canary sing |  |  |  | about the Canary Isles | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, the palms and almond-trees of the south sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t4:o1:1
# text = yes, the palms and almond-trees of the south sea
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, the palms and almond-trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t4:o2:1
# text = yes, the palms and almond-trees
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, the snow and cold hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t4:o3:1
# text = yes, the snow and cold hills
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, all the palms and the almond-trees and the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t4:o4:1
# text = yes, all the palms and the almond-trees and the sea
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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