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title: What's the mad bird scene on New Year's, like? — Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the mad bird scene on New Year's, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

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What's the mad bird scene on New Year's, like?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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/950-pg27200-part161/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t10:1
# text = What's the mad bird scene on New Year's, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the mad bird scene |  |  | on New Year |  | tree rules |

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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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Crows screaming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t10:o1:1
# text = Crows screaming
1	Crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | Crows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dogs barking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t10:o2:1
# text = Dogs barking
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund | Dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t10:o3:1
# text = Bells
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bells ringing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t10:o4:1
# text = Bells ringing
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | gerund | Bells *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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