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title: What did the fairy send ahead to the attendants? — Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the fairy send ahead to the attendants? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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 wa
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# Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, an…

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What did the fairy send ahead to the attendants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** fairy send

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1691 «Blue Fairy Book, The Blue Bird: the Frog is Serpentine, and the bird cures the King» 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/1691-pg640-part15/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1691-pg640-part15:t10:1
# text = What did the fairy send ahead to the attendants?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	send	send	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the fairy send |  |  |  | to the attendants; ahead *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent send=Eventuality |

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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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A letter saying the Prince had wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1691-pg640-part15:t10:o1:1
# text = A letter saying the Prince had wed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a letter *not said here* | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 2 | **w** | past · perfect · passive |  | a letter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A message saying the bird had been lost, and that the Prince would search for it at once

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1691-pg640-part15:t10:o2:1
# text = A message saying the bird had been lost, and that the Prince would search for it at once
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a message *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | a message |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **search** | would | the Prince |  |  |  |  | for message | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A message saying the bird had been found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1691-pg640-part15:t10:o3:1
# text = A message saying the bird had been found
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a message *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | a message |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A message saying the bird had been found, and that the Frog herself was coming home in the ivory car

<!-- fold The tree, 20 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1691-pg640-part15:t10:o4:1
# text = A message saying the bird had been found, and that the Frog herself was coming home in the ivory car
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a message *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | a message |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | the Frog  Frog |  |  | the ivory car |  | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location |

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