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title: Bro, who was the bird that kept waking him up? — Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan ou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, who was the bird that kept waking him up? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

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Bro, who was the bird that kept waking him up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, bird · **What happens:** be, keep, wake up · **To what, where:** bird

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his 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/1515-pg540-part12/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1515-pg540-part12:t4:1
# text = Bro, who was the bird that kept waking him up?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro | the bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wake up** | gerund | the bird *not said here* | bird |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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A cockerel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1515-pg540-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = A cockerel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cockerel	cockerel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The outlandish bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1515-pg540-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = The outlandish bird
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	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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That weird silver bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1515-pg540-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = That weird silver bird
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bird	bird	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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The rooster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1515-pg540-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = The rooster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rooster	rooster	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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