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title: Bro, what bird did the King reckon he'd caught, innit? — Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what bird did the King reckon he'd caught, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

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Bro, what bird did the King reckon he'd caught, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, King reckon · **What happens:** bird, do, catch, innit · **To what, where:** King reckon, bird

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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/1541-pg540-part38/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t2:1
# text = Bro, what bird did the King reckon he'd caught, innit?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bird** |  | Bro and bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Bro and bird | the King reckon |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | the King reckon *not said here* | bird |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **innit** | infinitive | Bro and bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a proper parrot from the south lands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t2:o1:1
# text = a proper parrot from the south lands
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t2:o2:1
# text = a hen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	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 pigeon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t2:o3:1
# text = a pigeon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a dove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t2:o4:1
# text = a dove
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dove	dove	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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