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title: Proper random, which bird sang in the palace garden? — Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Pur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, which bird sang in the palace garden? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Test 8 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

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Proper random, which bird sang in the palace garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proper random · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** palace garden

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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/636-pg23661-part4/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t8:1
# text = Proper random, which bird sang in the palace garden?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Proper random and which bird |  |  | the palace garden |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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The Red Parrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t8:o1:1
# text = The Red Parrot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Parrot	Parrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The Blue Bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t8:o2:1
# text = The Blue Bird
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bird	bird	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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The Robin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t8:o3:1
# text = The Robin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t8:o4:1
# text = The Owl
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Owl	Owl	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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