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title: To whom did the golden bird address its salutation on each occasion? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three b… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did the golden bird address its salutation on each occasion? Exam question 3 of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

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To whom did the golden bird address its salutation on each occasion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** address · **What happens:** do, salute · **To what, where:** golden bird address, occasion

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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/1565-pg540-part62/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:e3:1
# text = To whom did the golden bird address its salutation on each occasion?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the golden bird address |  | each occasion |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **salute** |  | address |  |  |  |  |  | nom salutation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:e3:o1:1
# text = the bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the chief cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:e3:o2:1
# text = the chief cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cook	cook	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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the kitchen maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:e3:o3:1
# text = the kitchen maid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	maid	maid	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 scullion boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:e3:o4:1
# text = the scullion boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boy	boy	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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