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title: fam what were those birds that dropped down at the lake, pigeons? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam what were those birds that dropped down at the lake, pigeons? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of…

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fam what were those birds that dropped down at the lake, pigeons?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam, birds · **What happens:** be, drop down · **To what, where:** birds, lake

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1119 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun, part 1: Ivan buys incense, chooses a wife, and builds a hut» 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/1119-pg29672-part25/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t5:1
# text = fam what were those birds that dropped down at the lake, pigeons?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fam | that birds and pigeons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop down** | past | that birds and pigeons |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at lake=Trajectory |

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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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Pigeons, the tame kind that come to the yard for bread crumbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t5:o1:1
# text = Pigeons, the tame kind that come to the yard for bread crumbs
1	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the tame kind |  |  |  |  | to the yard; for bread crumbs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wild doves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t5:o2:1
# text = Wild doves
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pigeons, wild doves, and some swans from the marsh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t5:o3:1
# text = Pigeons, wild doves, and some swans from the marsh
1	Pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sparrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1119-pg29672-part25:t5:o4:1
# text = Sparrows
1	Sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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