--- title: so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L… · tree and pragmatics description: so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/t2/) [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 Old Oak Tree's L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm… so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** oak · **What happens:** perch, gossip · **To what, where:** oak This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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/867-pg27200-part78/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t2:1 # text = so who was perched on the oak gossiping, like proper? 1 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 gossiping gossip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perch** | past · passive | | | | the oak | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on oak=Destination | | 2 | **gossip** *speech: other* | gerund | the oak *not said here* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} ravens and kites ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t2:o1:1 # text = ravens and kites 1 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} owls ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t2:o2:1 # text = owls 1 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} crows and rooks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t2:o3:1 # text = crows and rooks 1 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 rooks rook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} magpies chattering about the weather and the farm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t2:o4:1 # text = magpies chattering about the weather and the farm 1 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 chattering chatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chatter** | gerund | magpies *not said here* | | | | | about the weather and the farm | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about weather=Topic | **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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