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title: fr, why'd the bird only sing at night, bro? — Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf,… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, why'd the bird only sing at night, bro? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

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fr, why'd the bird only sing at night, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** sing

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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/149-pg11339-part19/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t5:1
# text = fr, why'd the bird only sing at night, bro?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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cuz she kept the whole village awake at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t5:o1:1
# text = cuz she kept the whole village awake at dawn
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | cuz | the whole village |  |  | dawn | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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cuz a fowler caught her singing by day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t5:o2:1
# text = cuz a fowler caught her singing by day
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | a cuz fowler | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a cuz fowler *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cuz he wanted her feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t5:o3:1
# text = cuz he wanted her feathers
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | cuz | her feathers |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feather=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz she was too loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:149-pg11339-part19:t5:o4:1
# text = cuz she was too loud
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she | cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

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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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