--- title: Wait, what did the sparrows say the Christmas trees had on them? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the sparrows say the Christmas trees had on them? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/825-pg27200-part36/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 Fir Tree,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/825-pg27200-part36/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir… Wait, what did the sparrows say the Christmas trees had on them? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sparrows, Christmas trees · **What happens:** wait, say, have · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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/825-pg27200-part36/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t4:1 # text = Wait, what did the sparrows say the Christmas trees had on them? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sparrows sparrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the sparrows | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | the Christmas trees | | | | | on sparrows *= sparrow* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Honey cakes and gilded apples ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t4:o1:1 # text = Honey cakes and gilded apples 1 Honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 gilded gild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gild** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Honey cakes and gilded apples and tiny glass birds ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t4:o2:1 # text = Honey cakes and gilded apples and tiny glass birds 1 Honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 gilded gild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gild** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Sugar plums and wrapped sweets ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t4:o3:1 # text = Sugar plums and wrapped sweets 1 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plums plum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | participle | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Tinsel ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t4:o4:1 # text = Tinsel 1 Tinsel tinsel NOUN NN 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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