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title: Who's the mate who fixed the bird up, anyway? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the mate who fixed the bird up, anyway? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy ove…

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Who's the mate who fixed the bird up, anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** be, fix up · **To what, where:** mate, bird

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1868 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 5: the spy overhears, the bird is cut, the King is saved» 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/1868-pg7277-part5/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:t4:1
# text = Who's the mate who fixed the bird up, anyway?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix up** | past | the mate | the bird |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bird=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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the Enchanter, obviously, who came when nobody else would help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:t4:o1:1
# text = the Enchanter, obviously, who came when nobody else would help
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Enchanter |  |  |  |  | obviously *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | would | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the palace gardener, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:t4:o2:1
# text = the palace gardener, I think
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the palace gardener |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Queen's old physician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:t4:o3:1
# text = the Queen's old physician
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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the Enchanter, obviously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1868-pg7277-part5:t4:o4:1
# text = the Enchanter, obviously
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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