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title: Why do many island birds in Hawaii now live only high up in the moun… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do many island birds in Hawaii now live only high up in the mountains? Test 10 of lesson 181 «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 10 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

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Why do many island birds in Hawaii now live only high up in the mountains?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many island birds · **What happens:** do, live · **To what, where:** mountains

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This is test 10 of lesson 181 «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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/181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs:t10:1
# text = Why do many island birds in Hawaii now live only high up in the mountains?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many island birds in Hawaii *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | present | many island birds in Hawaii |  |  | the mountains | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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The birds like the view

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs:t10:o1:1
# text = The birds like the view
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Mosquitoes that carry bird malaria do not live well in the cold high places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs:t10:o2:1
# text = Mosquitoes that carry bird malaria do not live well in the cold high places
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	malaria	malaria	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Mosquitoes | bird malaria |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malaria=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **live** | present · do-support | Mosquitoes |  |  | the cold high places |  | well *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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There is more nectar on the beach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs:t10:o3:1
# text = There is more nectar on the beach
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | more nectar |  |  | the beach; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The birds are afraid of the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs:t10:o4:1
# text = The birds are afraid of the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the birds |  |  |  |  | of the sea; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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