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title: no cap, what was the bird's deal? — Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25:… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what was the bird's deal? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 3 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no cap, what was the bird's deal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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/2066-pg976-part25/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t3:1
# text = no cap, what was the bird's deal?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no cap and the bird's deal | the bird's deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he used to be a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t3:o1:1
# text = he used to be a king
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he used to be a king until he got too proud of his crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t3:o2:1
# text = he used to be a king until he got too proud of his crown
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past | king |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **crown** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he got turned into it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t3:o3:1
# text = he got turned into it
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  | he |  | it |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into it=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he was a king who got cursed by Circe for being way too proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t3:o4:1
# text = he was a king who got cursed by Circe for being way too proud
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Circe	circe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | a king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **curse** | past · passive | Circe | a king |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for way | tree rules |

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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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