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title: Bruh, which birds kept yelling "stand in groups" like it was a fire… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, which birds kept yelling "stand in groups" like it was a fire drill? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

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Bruh, which birds kept yelling "stand in groups" like it was a fire drill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** birds, it · **What happens:** keep, yell, stand, be · **To what, where:** groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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/911-pg27200-part122/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t1:1
# text = Bruh, which birds kept yelling "stand in groups" like it was a fire drill?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | which birds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | which birds *not said here* |  |  | groups |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like a fire drill | tree rules |

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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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the owls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t1:o1:1
# text = the owls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 swallows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t1:o2:1
# text = the swallows
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the pigeons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t1:o3:1
# text = the pigeons
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the gulls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t1:o4:1
# text = the gulls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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