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title: bruv, what did the Black Bird and the Giant turn back into? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, what did the Black Bird and the Giant turn back into? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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
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# Test 12 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

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bruv, what did the Black Bird and the Giant turn back into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Giant · **What happens:** turn back

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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/1920-pg7277-part57/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t12:1
# text = bruv, what did the Black Bird and the Giant turn back into?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | infinitive | the Giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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their natural forms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t12:o1:1
# text = their natural forms
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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their human forms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t12:o2:1
# text = their human forms
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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their natural forms as birds and beasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t12:o3:1
# text = their natural forms as birds and beasts
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  | as birds and beasts | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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their old shapes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t12:o4:1
# text = their old shapes
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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