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title: Yeah but who said "Good-morning, lovely golden bird" first? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeah but who said "Good-morning, lovely golden bird" first? Test 8 · ★ 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 choi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

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Yeah but who said "Good-morning, lovely golden bird" first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t8:1
# text = Yeah but who said "Good-morning, lovely golden bird" first?
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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Zizi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t8: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 bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t8:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t8:o3:1
# text = the cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t8:o4:1
# text = the scullion
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scullion	scullion	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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