--- title: nah, why can't Anna's old doll act? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics description: nah, why can't Anna's old doll act? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/914-pg27200-part125/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/914-pg27200-part125/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives… nah, why can't Anna's old doll act? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Anna · **What happens:** act This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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/914-pg27200-part125/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t12:1 # text = nah, why can't Anna's old doll act? 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 4 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 6 Anna Anna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 doll doll NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | | Anna | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} She's broken ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t12:o1:1 # text = She's broken 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present · passive | | She | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} She's a total fright ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t12:o2:1 # text = She's a total fright 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | She | a total fright | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} She's too old ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t12:o3:1 # text = She's too old 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | She | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Her nose fell off lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t12:o4:1 # text = Her nose fell off lol 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 lol lol INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall off** | past | Her nose | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | **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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