--- title: Wait, what did the emperor offer the bird to make it sing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the emperor offer the bird to make it sing? Test 7 · ★ 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 ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/913-pg27200-part124/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir… Wait, what did the emperor offer the bird to make it sing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, emperor, bird · **What happens:** wait, offer, make, sing · **To what, where:** bird This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t7:1 # text = Wait, what did the emperor offer the bird to make it sing? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 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 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **offer** | past · do-support | the emperor | the bird | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal bird=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the emperor *not said here* | bird | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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} His golden slipper ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t7:o1:1 # text = His golden slipper 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} His jeweled necklace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t7:o2:1 # text = His jeweled necklace 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 jeweled jewel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jewel** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} His silver sandal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t7:o3:1 # text = His silver sandal 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sandal sandal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t7:o4:1 # text = A ring 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ring ring 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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