--- title: Ngl, who was sitting on the emperor's chest? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: Ngl, who was sitting on the emperor's chest? Test 8 · ★ 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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir… Ngl, who was sitting on the emperor's chest? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** chest This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t8:1 # text = Ngl, who was sitting on the emperor's chest? 1 Ngl Ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Ngl | | | the emperor's chest | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chest=Location | 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 {#o1} Death, with his long cold fingers sitting heavy upon the emperor's chest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t8:o1:1 # text = Death, with his long cold fingers sitting heavy upon the emperor's chest 1 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | his long cold fingers *not said here* | | | the emperor's chest | | heavy *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon chest=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Shadow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t8:o2:1 # text = Shadow 1 Shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Fear ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t8:o3:1 # text = Fear 1 Fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Death ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t8:o4:1 # text = Death 1 Death death 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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