--- title: Innit mad, where did the cradle float? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,… · tree and pragmatics description: Innit mad, where did the cradle float? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/t9/) [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/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r… Innit mad, where did the cradle float? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cradle · **What happens:** float This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t9:1 # text = Innit mad, where did the cradle float? 1 Innit Innit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | past · do-support | the cradle | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} to the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t9:o1:1 # text = to the sea 1 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} along the coast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t9:o2:1 # text = along the coast 1 along along ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} down the river ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t9:o3:1 # text = down the river 1 down down ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t9:o4:1 # text = away 1 away away ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/t8/) - next →: [Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/t10/) - ↑ back to [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1188-pg3027-part54/)