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title: What made the emperor cry, like, proper? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: What made the emperor cry, like, proper? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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What made the emperor cry, like, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** emperor cry

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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/912-pg27200-part123/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t3:1
# text = What made the emperor cry, like, proper?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the emperor cry |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cry=Product |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The nightingale's singing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t3:o1:1
# text = The nightingale's singing
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | the nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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"The music"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t3:o2:1
# text = "The music"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Her song"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t3:o3:1
# text = "Her song"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"The loud chatter of courtiers"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t3:o4:1
# text = "The loud chatter of courtiers"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chatter	chatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** *in a quote* |  | courtiers |  |  |  |  |  | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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