--- title: Wait, who is Old Nanny actually? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, who is Old Nanny actually? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/296-pg1597-part23/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/296-pg1597-part23/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,… Wait, who is Old Nanny actually? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Old Nanny This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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/296-pg1597-part23/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t2:1 # text = Wait, who is Old Nanny actually? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Nanny Nanny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 actually actually ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | actually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Old Nanny | | | | | tree rules | 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} Just a kind old lady who minds the boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t2:o1:1 # text = Just a kind old lady who minds the boy 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 minds mind VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mind** | present | a kind old lady | the boy | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Remembrance, the tree lady in disguise ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t2:o2:1 # text = Remembrance, the tree lady in disguise 1 Remembrance remembrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A tree lady ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t2:o3:1 # text = A tree lady 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Just Nanny ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t2:o4:1 # text = Just Nanny 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 Nanny Nanny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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