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title: Which bird did the girl point at, like, straight away? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which bird did the girl point at, like, straight away? Test 6 · ★ 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 e
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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Which bird did the girl point at, like, straight away?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** girl point

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t6:1
# text = Which bird did the girl point at, like, straight away?
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	6	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | the girl point |  |  |  | away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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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"A tiny yellow finch"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t6:o1:1
# text = "A tiny yellow finch"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	finch	finch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"A small plain bird perched on the wall outside the kitchen door"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t6:o2:1
# text = "A small plain bird perched on the wall outside the kitchen door"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perch** *in a quote* | participle |  | a small plain bird *not said here* |  | the wall |  | outside the kitchen door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A little grey bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t6:o3:1
# text = A little grey bird
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"A little grey bird singing in the tall trees by the sea"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t6:o4:1
# text = "A little grey bird singing in the tall trees by the sea"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | a little grey bird |  |  | the tall trees |  | by the sea | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=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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