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title: Sick, what dress did the bird bring her for the ball? — Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what dress did the bird bring her for the ball? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

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Sick, what dress did the bird bring her for the ball?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, bird · **What happens:** sick, bring · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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/759-pg2591-part35/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t10:1
# text = Sick, what dress did the bird bring her for the ball?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past · do-support | the bird |  | her *= she* |  |  | for the ball | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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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A dress of green silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t10:o1:1
# text = A dress of green silk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A gold and silver dress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t10:o2:1
# text = A gold and silver dress
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A grey frock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t10:o3:1
# text = A grey frock
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	frock	frock	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 {#o4}

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A blue velvet coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t10:o4:1
# text = A blue velvet coat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	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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