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title: Lol, how often could the fixed bird play after that? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how often could the fixed bird play after that? Test 6 · ★ 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 a
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bir…

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Lol, how often could the fixed bird play after that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** fix

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t6:1
# text = Lol, how often could the fixed bird play after that?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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Once a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t6:o1:1
# text = Once a month
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Weekly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t6:o2:1
# text = Weekly
1	Weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twice a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t6:o3:1
# text = Twice a month
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Once a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:913-pg27200-part124:t6:o4:1
# text = Once a year
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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