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title: Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit? — Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

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Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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/233-pg128-part73/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t10:1
# text = Which bird was chilling on the princess's lap, innit?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | past · progressive | which bird |  |  | the princess's lap |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | which bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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the falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t10:o1:1
# text = the falcon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falcon	falcon	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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the parrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t10:o2:1
# text = the parrot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	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 golden hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t10:o3:1
# text = a golden hawk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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the Talking Bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:233-pg128-part73:t10:o4:1
# text = the Talking Bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	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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