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title: Who's the bird dude that carried off Marya? — Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the bird dude that carried off Marya? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

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Who's the bird dude that carried off Marya?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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/1513-pg540-part10/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1513-pg540-part10:t10:1
# text = Who's the bird dude that carried off Marya?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | carry *property* | 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 Raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1513-pg540-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = The Raven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Raven	raven	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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The Eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1513-pg540-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = The Eagle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	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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The bird that flew off with the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1513-pg540-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = The bird that flew off with the Princess
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | with the Princess | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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The Falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1513-pg540-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = The Falcon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Falcon	falcon	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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