--- title: what was the sailors' song about, mate? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L… · tree and pragmatics description: what was the sailors' song about, mate? Test 9 · ★ 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 tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/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 Old Oak Tree's L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/867-pg27200-part78/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm… what was the sailors' song about, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** song, sailors · **What happens:** be, sing This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t9:1 # text = what was the sailors' song about, mate? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the sailors's song mate | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** | | the sailors | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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} Christmas joy and eternal life ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t9:o1:1 # text = Christmas joy and eternal life 1 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 eternal eternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} peace and quiet on the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t9:o2:1 # text = peace and quiet on the sea 1 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 quiet quiet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} summer sun and happy harvest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t9:o3:1 # text = summer sun and happy harvest 1 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t9:o4:1 # text = the sea 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea 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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