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title: so the purple bird was like peeping at em, yeah? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the purple bird was like peeping at em, yeah? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so the purple bird was like peeping at em, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** purple bird · **What happens:** peep

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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/2063-pg976-part22/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t3:1
# text = so the purple bird was like peeping at em, yeah?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past · progressive | the purple bird |  |  |  |  | at em | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at em=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and it kept going on and on

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and it kept going on and on
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | past | weep |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | gerund | weep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was singing, dead happy, proper nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t3:o3:1
# text = Nah, it was singing, dead happy, proper nice
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | it |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and then it flew right off the cliff edge

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, peep peep pe-weep, dead sad, proper gutted, and then it flew right off the cliff edge
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | weep |  |  | the cliff edge | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off edge=Trajectory |

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