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title: What did the ribbon on the fake bird brag about, mate? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the ribbon on the fake bird brag about, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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What did the ribbon on the fake bird brag about, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ribbon, fake bird brag

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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/912-pg27200-part123/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t12:1
# text = What did the ribbon on the fake bird brag about, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the ribbon |  | the fake bird brag  mate |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=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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"Japan wins"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t12:o1:1
# text = "Japan wins"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** *in a quote* | present | Japan |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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China's bird is poor next to Japan's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t12:o2:1
# text = China's bird is poor next to Japan's
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | China's bird |  | Japan |  |  | next, poor *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"China is poor"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t12:o3:1
# text = "China is poor"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | China |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"China's bird is poor, Japan's is rich"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t12:o4:1
# text = "China's bird is poor, Japan's is rich"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | China's bird |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Japan |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

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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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