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title: Bruv, what does the Bird of Truth say? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what does the Bird of Truth say? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

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Bruv, what does the Bird of Truth say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bird · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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/1188-pg3027-part54/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t11:1
# text = Bruv, what does the Bird of Truth say?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Truth	Truth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the Bird of Truth |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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}

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the gossip of birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t11:o1:1
# text = the gossip of birds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gossip** |  | birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the words of kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t11:o2:1
# text = the words of kings
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **word** |  |  | kings |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the truth of men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t11:o3:1
# text = the truth of men
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the truth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t11:o4:1
# text = the truth
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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