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title: bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

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bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** yoink · **To what, where:** feathers

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» 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/388-pg21-part9/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:388-pg21-part9:t3:1
# text = bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	yoinked	yoink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yoink** | past | the birds | his feathers |  |  |  | like fr; literally *property* | 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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yeah, they clowned him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:388-pg21-part9:t3:o1:1
# text = yeah, they clowned him
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clowned	clown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clown** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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yeah, they roasted him hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:388-pg21-part9:t3:o2:1
# text = yeah, they roasted him hard
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roasted	roast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roast** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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yeah, they cooked him bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:388-pg21-part9:t3:o3:1
# text = yeah, they cooked him bad
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yeah they dragged him hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:388-pg21-part9:t3:o4:1
# text = yeah they dragged him hard
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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