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title: Where's the grave the birds gotta sing around? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where's the grave the birds gotta sing around? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

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Where's the grave the birds gotta sing around?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** be, gotta, s around · **To what, where:** grave

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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/896-pg27200-part107/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t7:1
# text = Where's the grave the birds gotta sing around?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gotta	gotta	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sing	s	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the grave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gotta** | past | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **s around** | gerund | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The meadow near the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t7:o1:1
# text = The meadow near the house
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t7:o2:1
# text = The old field
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The beechwood on Jutland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t7:o3:1
# text = The beechwood on Jutland
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beechwood	beechwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t7:o4:1
# text = The moor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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