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title: Okay, what made the robot bird go silent? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, what made the robot bird go silent? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

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Okay, what made the robot bird go silent?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** robot bird · **What happens:** make, go · **To what, where:** robot bird

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 913 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real nightingale saves the dying emperor» 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/913-pg27200-part124/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t5:1
# text = Okay, what made the robot bird go silent?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	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	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the robot bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the robot bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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A spring cracked inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t5:o1:1
# text = A spring cracked inside
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  | spring | inside *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A spring cracked inside the bird, and the watchmaker could not repair it quickly

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t5:o2:1
# text = A spring cracked inside the bird, and the watchmaker could not repair it quickly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	watchmaker	watchmaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | participle |  | a spring *not said here* |  |  |  | inside the bird | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside bird=Location |
| 2 | **not** **repair** | could | a spring | watchmaker |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A wheel snapped loose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t5:o3:1
# text = A wheel snapped loose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	snapped	snap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | participle |  | a wheel *not said here* |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A pin fell out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t5:o4:1
# text = A pin fell out
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | past | a pin |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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