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title: Tell me, wicked, what was the swallows' gossip about? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me, wicked, what was the swallows' gossip about? Test 5 · ★ 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 tre
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# Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

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Tell me, wicked, what was the swallows' gossip about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** me, gossip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t5:1
# text = Tell me, wicked, what was the swallows' gossip about?
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the swallows's gossip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 king's new bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t5:o1:1
# text = the king's new bride
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a new queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t5:o2:1
# text = a new queen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a wedding feast plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t5:o3:1
# text = a wedding feast plan
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a queen and crystal cradle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t5:o4:1
# text = a queen and crystal cradle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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