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title: Bare sick, what was the fake bird made of? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare sick, what was the fake bird made of? Test 8 · ★ 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 each option; 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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Bare sick, what was the fake bird made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** sick fake bird

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t8:1
# text = Bare sick, what was the fake bird made of?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the sick fake bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the sick fake bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Diamonds and rubies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t8:o1:1
# text = Diamonds and rubies
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Pearls and emeralds"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t8:o2:1
# text = "Pearls and emeralds"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Diamonds, rubies, and sapphires all over its body"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t8:o3:1
# text = "Diamonds, rubies, and sapphires all over its body"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"Gold wire and diamonds from the emperor's treasury"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t8:o4:1
# text = "Gold wire and diamonds from the emperor's treasury"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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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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