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title: Real talk, what bird did Rasalu chat to? — Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what bird did Rasalu chat to? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

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Real talk, what bird did Rasalu chat to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** chat · **To what, where:** Real talk

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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/1840-pg7128-part24/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t12:1
# text = Real talk, what bird did Rasalu chat to?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	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 | **chat** *speech: other* | past · do-support | bird | Real talk |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a sparrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t12:o1:1
# text = a sparrow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a parrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t12:o2:1
# text = a parrot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t12:o3:1
# text = a crow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a golden parrot in the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t12:o4:1
# text = a golden parrot in the tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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