--- title: Ok but what did the nightingale sing about? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: Ok but what did the nightingale sing about? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/913-pg27200-part124/t12/) [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 Fairy Tales, The Nightingal…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/913-pg27200-part124/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir… Ok but what did the nightingale sing about? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nightingale · **What happens:** sing This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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/913-pg27200-part124/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t12:1 # text = Ok but what did the nightingale sing about? 1 Ok ok INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 2 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 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 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the nightingale | | | | | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The quiet churchyard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t12:o1:1 # text = The quiet churchyard 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 churchyard churchyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The cold moonlit grave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t12:o2:1 # text = The cold moonlit grave 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 moonlit moonlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The quiet churchyard, where the white roses bloom beside the old graves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t12:o3:1 # text = The quiet churchyard, where the white roses bloom beside the old graves 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 churchyard churchyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 10 beside beside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** | present | the white roses | | | the old graves | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside grave=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} The silent cemetery ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t12:o4:1 # text = The silent cemetery 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cemetery cemetery 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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