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title: wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

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wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, first one · **What happens:** wait, be, spread · **To what, where:** first one, rumour

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t6:1
# text = wait, who's the first one spreading the rumour?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **is a** | present |  | the first one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread** | gerund | the first one *not said here* | the rumour |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The white hen by the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t6:o1:1
# text = The white hen by the door
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The merry hen by the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t6:o2:1
# text = The merry hen by the gate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The hen next to the merry one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t6:o3:1
# text = The hen next to the merry one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The hen that sleeps nearest the cock and always gossips at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:914-pg27200-part125:t6:o4:1
# text = The hen that sleeps nearest the cock and always gossips at dawn
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	nearest	nearest	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	gossips	gossip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | the hen |  |  |  | dawn | nearest the cock and gossips | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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