---
title: bro, what was the song jurgen was singing? — Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what was the song jurgen was singing? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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 wa
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/968-pg27200-part179/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/968-pg27200-part179/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro, what was the song jurgen was singing?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** song jurgen · **What happens:** sing

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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/968-pg27200-part179/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t8:1
# text = bro, what was the song jurgen was singing?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	jurgen	jurgen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the song jurgen |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
a sailor's hymn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t8:o1:1
# text = a sailor's hymn
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hymn** |  | a sailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ballad of the old ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t8:o2:1
# text = the ballad of the old ship
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the king of england's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t8:o3:1
# text = the king of england's son
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	england	england	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ballad of the brave northern prince and his long voyage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t8:o4:1
# text = the ballad of the brave northern prince and his long voyage
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voyage** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/968-pg27200-part179/t7/)
- next →: [Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/968-pg27200-part179/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/968-pg27200-part179/)