--- title: Be honest, what did the old lady say the bird did wrong? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics description: Be honest, what did the old lady say the bird did wrong? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1343-pg4018-part3/t11/) [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/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1343-pg4018-part3/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the… Be honest, what did the old lady say the bird did wrong? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, old lady, bird · **What happens:** be, say, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» 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/1343-pg4018-part3/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t11:1 # text = Be honest, what did the old lady say the bird did wrong? 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the old lady | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | past | the bird | | | | | wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Ate all her starch ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t11:o1:1 # text = Ate all her starch 1 Ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | | her starch | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starch=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Broke pots ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t11:o2:1 # text = Broke pots 1 Broke broke ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Broke her clay bowls ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t11:o3:1 # text = Broke her clay bowls 1 Broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | | her clay bowls | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Stole ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t11:o4:1 # text = Stole 1 Stole stole NOUN NN Number=Sing 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. 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