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title: Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed? — Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the 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 ch
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# Test 5 · ★ · Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards th…

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Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wicked · **What happens:** do, land · **To what, where:** bird whisper

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1794 «Arab Tales, Sit-in-the-Kitchen, the youngest son guards the date tree and catches the 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/1794-pg641-part45/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t5:1
# text = Wicked, what did the bird whisper when it landed?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the bird whisper |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Eventuality |
| 2 | **land** | past | Wicked |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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"The tree is all mine"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t5:o1:1
# text = "The tree is all mine"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the tree | mine |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Hush now"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t5:o2:1
# text = "Hush now"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hush	hush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hush** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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"There is no one here"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t5:o3:1
# text = "There is no one here"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no one |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"Empty"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1794-pg641-part45:t5:o4:1
# text = "Empty"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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