--- title: Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower? — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics description: Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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 wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/905-pg27200-part116/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/905-pg27200-part116/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo… Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peak, tame pigeons · **What happens:** do This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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/905-pg27200-part116/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t9:1 # text = Peak, what did the tame pigeons do round the tower? 1 Peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ 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 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 round round ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Peak | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | the tame pigeons | | | | | round the tower | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} swoop down to pick up crumbs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t9:o1:1 # text = swoop down to pick up crumbs 1 swoop swoop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swoop down** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | crumbs | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic | ### Option 2 {#o2} flutter about the bell-tower all day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t9:o2:1 # text = flutter about the bell-tower all day 1 flutter flutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} flutter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t9:o3:1 # text = flutter 1 flutter flutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} gather ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t9:o4:1 # text = gather 1 gather gather NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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