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title: which bird did the Egyptians turn into a mummy? — Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga be… · tree and pragmatics
description: which bird did the Egyptians turn into a mummy? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

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which bird did the Egyptians turn into a mummy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird, Egyptians · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** mummy

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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/895-pg27200-part106/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t9:1
# text = which bird did the Egyptians turn into a mummy?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the Egyptians |  |  | a mummy |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mummy=Trajectory |

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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 bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t9:o1:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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the heron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t9:o2:1
# text = the heron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heron	heron	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 owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t9:o3:1
# text = the owl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owl	owl	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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the ibis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t9:o4:1
# text = the ibis
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ibis	ibis	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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