--- title: Fr, why did the fisherman feel something was missing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: Fr, why did the fisherman feel something was missing? Test 4 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/913-pg27200-part124/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir… Fr, why did the fisherman feel something was missing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr, something · **What happens:** feel, be This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t4:1 # text = Fr, why did the fisherman feel something was missing? 1 Fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 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 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | Fr | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | something | | | | | missing *property* | tree rules | 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} He missed something true ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t4:o1:1 # text = He missed something true 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | past | He | something | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nothing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t4:o2:1 # text = Nothing 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} He could not name it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t4:o3:1 # text = He could not name it 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **name** | could | He | it | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Its beat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t4:o4:1 # text = Its beat 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 beat beat 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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