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title: Ahh, what was the bird that came swooping in? — Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ahh, what was the bird that came swooping in? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 182 «Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, part 22: Sindbad is stranded and finds a giant white egg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

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Ahh, what was the bird that came swooping in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** be, come, swoop · **To what, where:** bird

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 182 «Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, part 22: Sindbad is stranded and finds a giant white egg» 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/182-pg128-part22/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:182-pg128-part22:t8:1
# text = Ahh, what was the bird that came swooping in?
1	Ahh	ahh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	swooping	swoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swoop** | gerund | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A roc, huge like a thundercloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:182-pg128-part22:t8:o1:1
# text = A roc, huge like a thundercloud
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roc	roc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thundercloud	thundercloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A giant hawk, dark and fierce

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:182-pg128-part22:t8:o2:1
# text = A giant hawk, dark and fierce
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A flock of huge crows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:182-pg128-part22:t8:o3:1
# text = A flock of huge crows
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bird so enormous that it seemed to blot out the sun above the entire island

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:182-pg128-part22:t8:o4:1
# text = A bird so enormous that it seemed to blot out the sun above the entire island
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	blot	blot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **blot out** | to-infinitive |  | the sun |  | the entire island |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination |

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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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