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title: Wait, who was the real canary here, Zizi or Titty? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who was the real canary here, Zizi or Titty? Test 1 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Test 1 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

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Wait, who was the real canary here, Zizi or Titty?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Zizi, real canary

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t1:1
# text = Wait, who was the real canary here, Zizi or Titty?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	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 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | Zizi or Titty |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the real canary |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Zizi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t1:o1:1
# text = Zizi
1	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	NNP	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 canary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t1:o2:1
# text = the canary
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	canary	canary	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 bride Titty, who was the bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t1:o3:1
# text = the bride Titty, who was the bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Titty	Titty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bride and the bird | the bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Titty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t1:o4:1
# text = Titty
1	Titty	titty	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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