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title: What was the nature of the bird that guided the children to the dwel… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the nature of the bird that guided the children to the dwelling? Exam question 2 of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

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What was the nature of the bird that guided the children to the dwelling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nature, bird · **What happens:** be, guide · **To what, where:** children, dwelling

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1473-pg503-part60/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:e2:1
# text = What was the nature of the bird that guided the children to the dwelling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nature of the bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guide** | past | the bird | the children |  | the dwelling |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to dwelling=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A snow-white bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:e2:o1:1
# text = A snow-white bird
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	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 black raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:e2:o2:1
# text = A black raven
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	raven	raven	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 crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:e2:o3:1
# text = A crow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A robin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:e2:o4:1
# text = A robin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robin	robin	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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**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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