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title: By what means does the nightingale bring about his own death? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means does the nightingale bring about his own death? Exam question 3 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose…

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By what means does the nightingale bring about his own death?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nightingale · **What happens:** mean, bring, die

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 960 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Rose from Homer's Grave: a rose is carried north in a book» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/960-pg27200-part171/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e3:1
# text = By what means does the nightingale bring about his own death?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | present · do-support | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | about nightingale's own death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** |  | nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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By singing himself to death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e3:o1:1
# text = By singing himself to death
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | himself *= he* | death |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to death=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By singing too long at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e3:o2:1
# text = By singing too long at night
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By sorrowfully singing all night long until his voice and heart gave out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e3:o3:1
# text = By sorrowfully singing all night long until his voice and heart gave out
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | night | long, sorrowfully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give out** | past | his voice and heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By singing so hard that his heart burst in grief for the rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:960-pg27200-part171:e3:o4:1
# text = By singing so hard that his heart burst in grief for the rose
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | his heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | past | his heart |  |  | grief |  | for the rose | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grief=Location |

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