--- title: Fam, what do the storms sing to the tree? — Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of th… · tree and pragmatics description: Fam, what do the storms sing to the tree? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/866-pg27200-part77/t9/) [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 Tales, The Last Dream of th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/866-pg27200-part77/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t… Fam, what do the storms sing to the tree? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** do, sing · **To what, where:** Fam, tree This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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/866-pg27200-part77/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t9:1 # text = Fam, what do the storms sing to the tree? 1 Fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 4 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | Fam | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Fam | | the tree | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient | 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} Lullaby, lullaby ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t9:o1:1 # text = Lullaby, lullaby 1 Lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 lullaby lullaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sing soft, sing soft ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t9:o2:1 # text = Sing soft, sing soft 1 Sing sing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | soft *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | soft *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Hush, hush ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t9:o3:1 # text = Hush, hush 1 Hush hush NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 hush hush NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Good-night, good-night ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t9:o4:1 # text = Good-night, good-night 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` 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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