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title: Dude, what did the bard keep singing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the bard keep singing? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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Dude, what did the bard keep singing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bard, Dude · **What happens:** keep, sing · **To what, where:** Dude

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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/889-pg27200-part100/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t5:1
# text = Dude, what did the bard keep singing?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | the bard | Dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Gold flees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t5:o1:1
# text = Gold flees
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flees	flee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present | Gold |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wealth will shine forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t5:o2:1
# text = Wealth will shine forever
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | future | Wealth |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Gold will flee away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t5:o3:1
# text = Gold will flee away
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee away** | future | Gold |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gold will flee away from the one who holds it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t5:o4:1
# text = Gold will flee away from the one who holds it
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee away** | future | Gold |  |  |  |  | from the one; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hold** | present | the one | Gold |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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