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title: What did the mum sing to her nipper? — Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the mum sing to her nipper? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What did the mum sing to her nipper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** mum sing

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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/345-pg18442-part5/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t7:1
# text = What did the mum sing to her nipper?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	nipper	nipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the mum sing |  |  |  | to her nipper | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t7:o1:1
# text = Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye
1	Hush	hush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hush	hush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | ye *obl:unmarked* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient |
| 2 | **hush** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bonnie lad, bonnie lad, sleep ye now the night is long and dark tonight

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t7:o2:1
# text = Bonnie lad, bonnie lad, sleep ye now the night is long and dark tonight
1	Bonnie	bonnie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the night |  |  |  | now; tonight | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t7:o3:1
# text = Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, the Douglas is coming up the hill

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t7:o4:1
# text = Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, the Douglas is coming up the hill
1	Hush	hush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hush	hush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** | imperative | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient |
| 2 | **hush** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ye |  |  |  | little pet *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient |
| 3 | **come up** | present · progressive | the Douglas | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme |

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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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