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title: Do the birds like the plant, or do they bin it? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from He… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do the birds like the plant, or do they bin it? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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 w
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plan…

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Do the birds like the plant, or do they bin it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, birds · **What happens:** do, bin · **To what, where:** birds, plant

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 847 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Leaf from Heaven: a scorned plant is lost and a king grieves» 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/847-pg27200-part58/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:847-pg27200-part58:t12:1
# text = Do the birds like the plant, or do they bin it?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bin	bin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | the birds |  |  |  | like the plant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bin** | present · do-support | birds *= bird* | plant |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They bowed down before it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:847-pg27200-part58:t12:o1:1
# text = They bowed down before it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow down** | past | They |  |  | it |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They bin it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:847-pg27200-part58:t12:o2:1
# text = They bin it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They flew off, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:847-pg27200-part58:t12:o3:1
# text = They flew off, mate
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | They |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They sang loudly over it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:847-pg27200-part58:t12:o4:1
# text = They sang loudly over it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | They |  |  | it |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |

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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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