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title: Wicked, what was the bird in that cage called, mate? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what was the bird in that cage called, mate? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 2 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

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Wicked, what was the bird in that cage called, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cage · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** Wicked bird, cage, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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/1898-pg7277-part35/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t2:1
# text = Wicked, what was the bird in that cage called, mate?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 Wicked bird |  | that cage |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | that cage *not said here* | mate |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Silver Thrush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = The Silver Thrush
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Thrush	Thrush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Golden Blackbird of the eastern forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = The Golden Blackbird of the eastern forest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The Golden Blackbird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = The Golden Blackbird
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Golden Finch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = The Golden Finch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Finch	Finch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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