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title: Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke? — Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the cloc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

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Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clockwork bird, bird · **What happens:** be, allow, sing, break · **To what, where:** clockwork bird

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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/1744-pg640-part68/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t12:1
# text = Was the clockwork bird allowed to sing every day after it broke?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the clockwork bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | participle · passive |  | the clockwork bird |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the clockwork bird *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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No, once a year, but not more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t12:o1:1
# text = No, once a year, but not more
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, never

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t12:o2:1
# text = No, never
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, daily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, daily
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, only once a year, and even that was too much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1744-pg640-part68:t12:o4:1
# text = No, only once a year, and even that was too much
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |

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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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