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title: bruh, what did the little bird bust when he fell? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what did the little bird bust when he fell? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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bruh, what did the little bird bust when he fell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** do, fall · **To what, where:** little bird

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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/942-pg27200-part153/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t2:1
# text = bruh, what did the little bird bust when he fell?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	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	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	bust	bu	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the little bird |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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 {#o1}

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bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t2:o1:1
# text = bone
1	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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his left wing feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t2:o2:1
# text = his left wing feather
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t2:o3:1
# text = leg
1	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a wing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t2:o4:1
# text = a wing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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