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title: «my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right? — Budgies and canaries · tree and pragmatics
description: «my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» of the biology 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 1 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

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«my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** blue budgies · **What happens:** be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» 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/205-budgies-and-canaries/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t1:1
# text = «my budgie's blue so wild budgies must be blue too» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	budgie	budgie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	budgies	budgie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | my budgie's blue budgies |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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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Wild budgies are all green and yellow; blue was bred in pets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t1:o1:1
# text = Wild budgies are all green and yellow; blue was bred in pets
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Wild budgies |  |  |  |  | all, green *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Wild budgies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Wild budgies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **breed** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in pets | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wild budgies are every colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t1:o2:1
# text = Wild budgies are every colour
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wild budgies | every colour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wild budgies are black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t1:o3:1
# text = Wild budgies are black
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	budgies	budgie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Wild budgies |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, all wild budgies are blue, just like the sky they fly about in

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:205-budgies-and-canaries:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, all wild budgies are blue, just like the sky they fly about in
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	budgies	budgie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all wild budgies |  |  |  |  | like the sky; blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | present | budgies *= budgie* | the sky *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sky=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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