--- title: was the canary singing about dark-green trees? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics description: was the canary singing about dark-green trees? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/842-pg27200-part53/t12/) [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 Goloshes o…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/842-pg27200-part53/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:… was the canary singing about dark-green trees? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** canary · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** canary This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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/842-pg27200-part53/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t12:1 # text = was the canary singing about dark-green trees? 1 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 canary canary NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the canary | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the canary *not said here* | | | | | about green trees | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about tree=Location | 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} yeah, about the sun ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t12:o1:1 # text = yeah, about the sun 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} no, just singing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t12:o2:1 # text = no, just singing 1 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} yeah, about his homeland ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t12:o3:1 # text = yeah, about his homeland 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 homeland homeland NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} no, about his old cage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t12:o4:1 # text = no, about his old cage 1 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cage cage 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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