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title: Bro, what did the bird chuck on the stepmum's noggin? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the bird chuck on the stepmum's noggin? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

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Bro, what did the bird chuck on the stepmum's noggin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bird chuck, noggin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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/765-pg2591-part41/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t1:1
# text = Bro, what did the bird chuck on the stepmum's noggin?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chuck	chuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	noggin	noggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the bird chuck |  | the stepmum's noggin |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality |

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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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a heavy bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t1:o1:1
# text = a heavy bell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bell	bell	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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a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t1:o2:1
# text = a stone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	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 rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t1:o3:1
# text = a rock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a millstone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t1:o4:1
# text = a millstone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	millstone	millstone	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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