--- title: Wait, what did Night want her to do first? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did Night want her to do first? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/t4/) [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 Story of a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m… Wait, what did Night want her to do first? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Night, her · **What happens:** wait, want, do · **To what, where:** her This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t4:1 # text = Wait, what did Night want her to do first? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Night Night PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **want** | past · do-support | Night | her *= she* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} play all the tunes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t4:o1:1 # text = play all the tunes 1 play play VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tunes tune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* | all tunes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} sing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t4:o2:1 # text = sing 1 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} sing all the songs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t4:o3:1 # text = sing all the songs 1 sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | all songs | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} sing them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t4:o4:1 # text = sing them 1 sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | **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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