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title: Bro, what did the cobbler give the bird? — English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the cobbler give the bird? Test 7 · ★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

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Bro, what did the cobbler give the bird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cobbler · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** bird

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the cobbler give the bird?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the cobbler | the bird |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient bird=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 {#o1}

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shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = shoes
1	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = boots
1	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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new boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = new boots
1	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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red shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = red shoes
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shoes	shoe	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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