--- title: What did the bird tell her to nick from the fountain? — Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the bird tell her to nick from the fountain? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1706-pg640-part30/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1706-pg640-part30/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c… What did the bird tell her to nick from the fountain? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** tell, nick · **To what, where:** her, fountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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/1706-pg640-part30/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t12:1 # text = What did the bird tell her to nick from the fountain? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 nick nick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the bird | | her *= she* | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bird *not said here* | | | the fountain | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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} A silver coin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t12:o1:1 # text = A silver coin 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A red berry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t12:o2:1 # text = A red berry 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 berry berry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} A shining pebble ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t12:o3:1 # text = A shining pebble 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 pebble pebble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} A shining pebble from the bottom of the fountain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t12:o4:1 # text = A shining pebble from the bottom of the fountain 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 pebble pebble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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