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title: A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere. What problem could it… — Breeding programmes for rare animals:… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere. What problem could it have in the wild? Test 6 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 6 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

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A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere. What problem could it have in the wild?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** reared chick, problem · **What happens:** rear, follow, have · **To what, where:** people, wild

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This is test 6 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology 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/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:1
# text = A hand-reared chick follows people everywhere.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	chick	chick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | present | a reared chick | people |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What problem could it have in the wild?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:2
# text = What problem could it have in the wild?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | could | problem |  |  | the wild |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It will never be hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:o1:1
# text = It will never be hungry
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | future | It |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It will fly too fast to land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:o2:1
# text = It will fly too fast to land
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | future | It | land |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It may not behave like its own kind or fear danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:o3:1
# text = It may not behave like its own kind or fear danger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **behave** | may | It |  |  |  |  | like its own kind or fear danger | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like kind=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will be too clean to survive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals:t6:o4:1
# text = It will be too clean to survive
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | It |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **survive** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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