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title: mate, where's she gonna sit to sing at him? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, where's she gonna sit to sing at him? Test 3 · ★ 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 choi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

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mate, where's she gonna sit to sing at him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** be, sing

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t3:1
# text = mate, where's she gonna sit to sing at him?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	appos	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | sit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On his roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t3:o1:1
# text = On his roof
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t3:o2:1
# text = In the garden
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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On a bough outside his window, right next to his golden bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t3:o3:1
# text = On a bough outside his window, right next to his golden bed
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On a bough outside his window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t3:o4:1
# text = On a bough outside his window
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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