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title: Ngl, what bird was singing that tune? — English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what bird was singing that tune? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

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Ngl, what bird was singing that tune?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl bird · **What happens:** bird, sing · **To what, where:** tune

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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/1945-pg7439-part4/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t6:1
# text = Ngl, what bird was singing that tune?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bird** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Ngl bird | that tune |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |

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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 white bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t6:o1:1
# text = a white bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	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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a robin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t6:o2:1
# text = a robin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robin	robin	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 bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t6:o3:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	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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a red robin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t6:o4:1
# text = a red robin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	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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